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Internet Personal Jurisdiction

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Someone is Watching You: The Complexities of Personal Jurisdiction in the Digital Age

The internet, characterized by its borderless nature, has introduced significant challenges to the traditional concepts of personal jurisdiction in federal courts. This issue was recently highlighted in the First Circuit...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ninth Circuit Opinion Supports Personal Jurisdiction Defense for Interactive Websites

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With so many companies being hauled into court in California based on claims that the functionalities on their website and use of service providers for marketing or analytics purposes violate consumer privacy rights, it is...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Ninth Circuit Recognizes ‘Catch All’ Jurisdiction Over Foreign-Based Internet IP Infringers

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In a decision that continues a trend of courts recognizing expansive jurisdiction over persons and entities engaging in intellectual property infringement through the internet, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A Quick Study in Doxing and Personal Jurisdiction: Vangheluwe v. GotNews

In the digital age, the internet not infrequently stretches the bounds of traditional jurisprudence and raises tricky new questions. An example from earlier this year is Vangheluwe v. GotNews, LLC, where a federal court in...more

Butler Snow LLP

Tennessee Adopts New Personal Jurisdiction Standard for Internet Contacts

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Courts across jurisdictions have grappled for years with reconciling the personal jurisdiction “minimum contacts” test with the fact that “the [I]nternet operates ‘in’ every state regardless of where the user is physically...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

In Online Defamation Case, Court Finds That Personal Jurisdiction Does Not Exist Over Blogger Who Directed Online Reviews To A...

The Eastern District of Virginia recently dismissed an online defamation case on personal jurisdiction grounds. The case related to a gun-aficionado blog, created in Arizona and aimed at a “nationwide marketplace of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Jurisdiction: No “Situs of Injury” Merely Because Copyrighted Material Is Accessible

Because content posted online can be accessed nearly anywhere, courts regularly face the issue of whether they have personal jurisdiction over a defendant who posted material to the web or a social media site. Recently, one...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

In Need of a Tune Up: Wisconsin’s Court of Appeals Considers Personal Jurisdiction in the Internet Age

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Last year, we wrote about the Seventh Circuit’s interpretation of the emerging issue of personal jurisdiction in the context of internet activity. Courts understandably have been wary of subjecting businesses to broad...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Website Activity Alone Sufficient to Confer Personal Jurisdiction Over Non-Resident Website Operator - Louis Vuitton Malletier,...

Addressing whether a lower court had personal jurisdiction over a defendant found to have defaulted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the lower court’s denial of defendant’s motion to vacate default...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Personal Jurisdiction From E-Contacts Remains An Unpredictable Issue

Originally published in the New York Law Journal on February 25, 2013. Advances in technology continue to have an interesting and quixotic effect on the way in which courts grapple with personal jurisdiction. Commercial...more

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