Case dismissed because federal court in California did not have personal jurisdiction over Illinois resident. Facebook, Inc. v. Teachbook.com, LLC, 2011 WL 1672464 (N.D.Cal. May 3, 2011) Last year Facebook made us wonder if it had gone off its meds when it filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Illinois-based Teachbook.com. More than one commentator thought [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Personal Jurisdiction’
Deliberate exploitation of market subjects GoDaddy to personal jurisdiction in Illinois
October 6th, 2010
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uBid v. GoDaddy, — F.3d —, 2010 WL 3768075 (7th Cir. September 29, 2010) uBid sued GoDaddy in federal court in Illinois, alleging cybersquatting. uBid claimed that GoDaddy — an Arizona-based company — intended to profit in bad faith by registering on behalf of its customers certain domain names that were similar to uBid’s trademarks. [...]
Internet transactions support exercise of personal jurisdiction over out of state cigarette seller
September 15th, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Illinois v. Hemi Group LLC, — F.3d —, 2010 WL 3547647 (7th Cir. September 14, 2010) Seventh Circuit declines once again to adopt the Zippo test for personal jurisdiction in internet cases. The State of Illinois filed a civil suit in federal court in Illinois against a New Mexico-based online cigarette seller. [...]
Website terms of service provide basis for exercise of personal jurisdiction
April 9th, 2009
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CoStar Realty Information, Inc. v. Field, — F.Supp.2d —-, 2009 WL 841132 (D.Md. March 31, 2009) Personal jurisdiction cases — even ones that involve the internet — are generally not all that interesting. But the case of CoStar Realty Information, Inc. v. Field is worth noting because of the way the personal jurisdiction analysis was [...]
No personal jurisdiction over Australian defendant in Flickr right of publicity case
January 22nd, 2009
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Chang v. Virgin Mobile USA, LLC, 2009 WL 111570 (N.D.Tex. January 16, 2009) Allison Chang (through her mother, since Allison is a minor) and Justin Ho-Wee Wong sued Australian-based Virgin Mobile Pty Ltd. alleging a number of tort claims including misappropriation of Chang’s right of publicity. Plaintiffs claimed that Virgin wrongfully used Chang’s picture in [...]
Ninth Circuit: No personal jurisdiction over out of state eBay seller
August 22nd, 2008
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Boschetto v. Hansing, — F.3d —, 2008 WL 3852676 (9th Cir. August 20, 2008) Hansing, a resident of Wisconsin, offered a 1964 Ford Galaxie for sale on eBay. Boschetto, a California resident, was the winning bidder, and sent Hansing $34,106. He also arranged to have the car shipped from Wisconsin to California. After Boschetto found [...]
