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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

Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door to Suits in States Where Companies are Registered

Stinson LLP on 7/12/2023

In its June 27, 2023, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a corporate defendant can be sued in Pennsylvania — regardless of whether the cause of action accrues in Pennsylvania or...more

Supreme Court Reinstates Statutory “Consent” to General Personal Jurisdiction

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/10/2023

On June 27, 2023, the United States Supreme Court decided Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 2023 WL 4187749, 600 U.S. ___ (June 27, 2023), a decision that likely will reinvigorate forum-shopping efforts by plaintiffs...more

Supreme Court Upholds Personal Jurisdiction by Corporate Registration

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/30/2023

In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. __ (June 27, 2023), the United States Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania law that enables a plaintiff to show general personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state...more

In a Potential Sea Change for Business Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court Allows States To Compel Companies To Be Sued Where...

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 6/29/2023

On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires companies to consent to being sued in its state courts as a condition of registering to do business there. In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern, the Court...more

“Welcome to our State . . . and our Courts!”

Fox Rothschild LLP on 6/29/2023

A new decision by the United States Supreme Court has greatly expanded the locations where corporations can be sued. Traditionally, corporations are considered to be citizens of the states in which they are incorporated or...more

U.S. Supreme Court Diminishes Daimler and Upends Aybar

Rivkin Radler LLP on 6/29/2023

Plaintiffs’ counsel rejoice, defense counsel take note, and businesses beware. Daimler has been diminished and businesses are no longer only subject to general jurisdiction in states in which they are incorporated or...more

The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether States Can Require Consent to General Personal Jurisdiction as the Cost of Doing Business

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 9/12/2022

The two most thrilling words to readers of legal blogs must be “personal jurisdiction.” In the term that starts October 2022, the United States Supreme Court will consider a case that will determine the constitutionality of...more

SCOTUS Limits Jurisdictions Where Corporations Can Be Sued

Rumberger | Kirk on 10/26/2017

With its recent opinion in BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the strong position that it took in Daimler AG v. Bauman with respect to general jurisdiction, leaving no doubt that a...more

Business Litigation Reporter - April 2017

Goodwin on 4/10/2017

Representations and Warranties Insurance Policies – Lessons from the Claims Process - Representations and warranties insurance policies (R&WI Policies)—designed to protect parties from loss arising from breaches of...more

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