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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether the Palestinian Authority Can Be Sued In the United States for Terror Attacks in Israel

Fox Rothschild LLP on 4/7/2025

The United States Supreme Court may soon decide whether U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel may sue the Palestinian Authority (“PA”) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (“PLO)” for damages in U.S. courts. In...more

Is Registration As A Foreign Corporation A Form Of Compelled Consent?

Allen Matkins on 3/27/2025

Not too long ago, I wrote about a bill that is currently pending in the Nevada legislature, AB 158. This bill would authorize Nevada courts to exercise general personal jurisdiction over entities on the sole basis that the...more

Specific Personal Jurisdiction Established Through Indirect Evidence of Targeting a Market

Cozen O'Connor on 2/3/2025

In a recent decision, California’s Third Appellate Division held that a foreign automobile manufacturer could be haled into a state court in California through the indirect actions of its distributor without offending...more

Global Coverage, Global Jurisdiction? Analyzing Efforts to Expand Personal Jurisdiction Over Insurers

Maynard Nexsen on 1/16/2025

Across the United States, courts disagree about where an insurance company may be subject to personal jurisdiction. For instance, is a territory-of-coverage provision relevant to personal jurisdiction? What about registering...more

U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Constitutionality of Federal Personal Jurisdiction Over Extraterritorial Acts

Jones Day on 12/16/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether U.S. courts have personal jurisdiction over foreign defendants under the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act ("PSJVTA")....more

Conn. Court Split May Lead To Vertical Forum Shopping: A Law360 Article

Shipman & Goodwin LLP on 10/8/2024

In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.,[1] the U.S. Supreme Court clarified last year that states can require foreign entities to consent to personal jurisdiction as a condition for doing business within their borders. ...more

A Year With Mallory: Revisiting The Concept of Consenting to General Personal Jurisdiction

Amundsen Davis LLC on 8/21/2024

On June 27, 2023, Truck on highwaythe Supreme Court of the United States decided Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. 122 (2023). The divided Court upheld a Pennsylvania corporate registration statute which...more

Montana Supreme Court Finds Minimum Contacts in Social Media Posts Targeting State Residents

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 11/30/2023

Posting on social media about businesses located in another state could give rise to personal jurisdiction in that state, according to a recent landmark opinion by a sharply divided Montana Supreme Court. In Groo v. Montana...more

3 Personal Jurisdiction Questions Mallory Leaves Unanswered

WilmerHale on 10/26/2023

The due process framework that has cabined personal jurisdiction over nationwide and global businesses for the last eight decades — since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1945 ruling in International Shoe Co. v. Washington — looks...more

U.S. Supreme Court Decides That Companies May Be Deemed to Have Consented to General Personal Jurisdiction in States Where They...

Bricker Graydon LLP on 9/22/2023

In a case issued on June 27, 2023, a divided Supreme Court decided another important personal jurisdiction case – Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 2023 WL 4187749. The principal issue was whether a foreign corporation...more

Far From Home: Supreme Court Expands General Jurisdiction for Out-of-State Defendants in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

Benesch on 9/18/2023

When served with a summons and complaint for an out-of-state lawsuit, one of the first things a defendant is likely to ask is—can this court compel me to appear? Given that most transportation and logistics-related disputes...more

Did We Consent to Be Sued Here? An Update on Newest U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Personal Jurisdiction in Mallory v. Norfolk...

Snell & Wilmer on 9/1/2023

It is common knowledge that every state has some requirement that companies doing business in the state register to do so. However, under the most recent U.S. Supreme Court decision addressing personal jurisdiction, the mere...more

Should I Register My Entity to Do Business in a State? Supreme Court Case Reminds Us of the Scope of Considerations

Venable LLP on 8/23/2023

Clients frequently ask whether a business entity needs to register to do business in a particular state with which the entity has begun to have some degree of ongoing contact. In responding we typically consider the state's...more

Supreme Court Expands General Jurisdiction in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Marking Departure from “At Home”...

Benesch on 8/21/2023

The test for personal jurisdiction, which asks whether a defendant can be compelled to litigate in a particular state, has been extensively developed over the past several decades, and notably refined in the last fifteen...more

The Supreme Court Declares Registered Out-of-State Businesses “At Home” in Pennsylvania

Quarles & Brady LLP on 8/3/2023

If a Wisconsin citizen is injured in Wisconsin on the property of a Wisconsin company, where can the citizen sue the company? One option is where the accident occurred—Wisconsin. Another option is where the company is...more

Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.: Supreme Court Recognizes Existence of Consent-Based Theory of General Personal...

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 8/2/2023

The US Supreme Court recently issued a decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co holding that a Pennsylvania statute requiring corporations to "consent" to suit in Pennsylvania courts in order to register to do...more

Supreme Court Drives Train Through Jurisdiction Loophole

Irwin IP LLP on 8/1/2023

Be cautious when deciding whether to do business in a state in way that requires you to register in that state; you may be consenting to general personal jurisdiction in that new state by doing so. On June 27, 2023, the...more

When International Shoe Doesn't Fit: Personal Jurisdiction After Mallory v. Norfolk Southern

Venable LLP on 7/26/2023

Every first-year law student learns two ways that a court can have jurisdiction over a corporate defendant. If the defendant has "minimum contacts" with a state, and the plaintiff's injuries arise out of those contacts, then...more

Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway—A Crossroads of Consent and Corporate Jurisdiction

Saul Ewing LLP on 7/20/2023

On June 27, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that states can require corporations registered in their state to consent to be sued in the state as a condition of doing business there—even if the facts of a lawsuit...more

Supreme Court Holds Corporation Waived Due Process Rights and Consented to General Personal Jurisdiction by Registering to do...

Lathrop GPM on 7/19/2023

On June 27, 2023, the United States Supreme Court held in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co., No. 21-1168, 2023 WL 4187749, that Norfolk Southern submitted to the state of Pennsylvania’s general jurisdiction (that is, being...more

Corporate Consent Jurisdiction and the Supreme Court's Landmark Mallory Decision

BakerHostetler on 7/18/2023

The Supreme Court has significantly expanded the possible grounds for personal jurisdiction against corporations, upholding Pennsylvania’s statute requiring foreign businesses registered in the Commonwealth to consent to...more

Now What: Recent Supreme Court Decision Opens the Door for Expanded Corporate Personal Jurisdiction

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/18/2023

Here at Foley, we routinely represent companies, whether manufacturers, distributors, service providers, or others that are, by necessity, registered to do business in most or all of the fifty states. For years, the U.S....more

Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Likely to Spawn New Attempts at Litigation Tourism

Adams & Reese on 7/17/2023

Tag, You’re It! SCOTUS Ruling Against Norfolk Southern Extends Reach of Personal Jurisdiction Upon Corporate Defendants - A plurality of the United States Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that will likely permit...more

Supreme Court Decision Could Upend Personal Jurisdiction Landscape for National and Multinational Corporations

McGuireWoods LLP on 7/14/2023

The personal jurisdiction landscape for corporations changed a few weeks ago. In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., decided June 27, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania statute that conditions an...more

Losing Your International Shoe: Corporations May Waive Contacts-Based Personal Jurisdiction in Consent-by-Registration States

Mintz on 7/14/2023

Late last month the Supreme Court of the United States opened the door to a potential sea change in personal jurisdiction over corporate entities. In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, the Court held that any...more

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