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Morrison & Foerster LLP

Cost Of Doing Business? Supreme Court Scrutinizes Constitutionality Of Requiring Companies To Consent To General Personal...

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In an important case that could blow the doors open on personal jurisdiction so that corporations can be subject to suit anywhere they do business, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday. In Mallory v. Norfolk...more

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Chris Lazarini Examines Whether Personal Jurisdiction Exists Over a Non-Resident Defendant

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Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examines a court’s two-step process to determine if personal jurisdiction exists over a non-resident defendant. The court ruled the exercise of jurisdiction (1) must be appropriate...more

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Personal Jurisdiction Lessons Learned . . . Forgotten . . . and Remembered

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As lawyers, we learn early on about the necessity that a court must have personal jurisdiction over a defendant in order to enter a valid, enforceable judgment. Recently, the Tennessee Court of Appeals, in Corporate Flight...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Court Rules on Remand that it Lacks Long-Arm Jurisdiction Over Tech Company in Defamation Lawsuit

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Judge Kaplan recently ruled that the Superior Court does not have jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant under the Massachusetts long-arm statute, G.L. c. 223A, § 3. The case involves two competing businesses that design...more

Allen Matkins

This International Shoe Doesn’t Fit: Subsidiary May Not Be Parent’s Agent

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Is a wholly-owned subsidiary per se an agent of the parent? In an opinion issued yesterday, the Nevada Supreme Court answered “not necessarily”. The legal issue was whether the German parent of a Delaware corporation doing...more

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Invitae Files Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction in Myriad Genetics v. Invitae Corp.

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It is often to a patentee plaintiff's strategic advantage to file suit in the district in which it resides, to obtain whatever "home court" advantage may attach to that venue. Myriad's choice of filing its post-Supreme Court...more

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