JD Supra

Personal Jurisdiction in Today’s Commercial World: It Doesn’t Take Much to be Conducting a Business Venture

Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal recently issued an interesting and important decision on personal jurisdiction in today’s commercial world. Kapila v. RJPT, Ltd., Case No. 2D22-837 (Fla. 2d ...
Reuters

Supreme Court dramatically expands scope of state court jurisdiction over businesses

July 25, 2023 - A new 5-4 decision from the U.S. Supreme Court holding registration to do business in a state is sufficient for personal jurisdiction even if the subject of the lawsuit has no ...
JD Supra

Jurisdiction by Consent: Georgia Holds that Corporations Registered to do Business in the State Consent to Being Sued There

In Cooper Tire & Rubber Co, v, McCall, No. S20G1368, 2021 Ga. LEXIS 626 (Cooper Tire), the Supreme Court of Georgia (Supreme Court) held that Georgia courts can exercise general personal jurisdiction ...
SCOTUSblog

Court upholds state corporate registration law in major personal jurisdiction case

The justices narrowly rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not ...
Reuters

Renewed focus on personal jurisdiction can level litigation playing field

July 27, 2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court has renewed interest in the importance of personal jurisdiction disputes.
Reason

Congress, the Fifth Amendment, and Personal Jurisdiction

Civil procedure students are used to hearing about the rules for state-court personal jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. But the Fifth Amendment has a Due Process Clause ...
Reason

Don't Forget Your First-Year Civil Procedure Lessons on Personal Jurisdiction

From Castro v. Doe, decided Monday by Judge Mark Pittman (N.D. Tex.): John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit on June 16, 2023, alleging that former President Donald Trump, among others, conspired to ...
SCOTUSblog

Personal jurisdiction, habeas, and a possible replacement case

UPDATE Dec. 6: Plumbers Local has filed a motion to dismiss its petition for review in Plumbers Local #290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, so the justices will not consider the case at their conference on ...
Jurist

US Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on statute of limitations, personal jurisdiction

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v. Goertz and Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, which focus on statute of limitations and personal jurisdiction issues. In ...
Law

Personal Jurisdiction Over a Manufacturer of Consumer Products Distributed Throughout the US and Causing Injury in Pa.

The modernization of the marketing of products across the country has led to a reevaluation of the question of personal jurisdiction over product manufacturers whose products are nationally ...
Law

SCOTUS Resolves FSIA Personal Jurisdiction Issues (In Part)

The Ninth Circuit stood alone among the circuit courts of appeal in holding that establishing jurisdiction over a foreign state under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) requires a traditional ...