No. 25-5409

Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-08-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting
Key Terms:
Trademark
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an entity that purposefully and continuously operates a website serving residents of a forum thereby 'expressly aim' at the forum for purposes of specific personal jurisdiction, and whether the preponderance standard is the proper standard of proof in pretrial personal jurisdiction hearings

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. The Court should grant review to resolve a circuit split on a vital jurisdictional question for the digital age: Does an entity that purposefully and continuously operates a website serving residents of a forum thereby “expressly aim” at the forum for purposes of specific personal jurisdiction? 2. Is the preponderance standard the proper standard of proof in pretrial personal jurisdiction hearings?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-08-29
Waiver of right of respondent Schneider Electric SE to respond filed.
2025-08-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 18, 2025)

Attorneys

Schneider Electric SE
Nathan R. SpeedWolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Respondent
Stanislav Arbit
Stanislav Arbit — Petitioner