No. 25-912

InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al.

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2026-02-03
Status: Pending
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a plaintiff's claim 'relates to' a defendant's forum-directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum, in the absence of any in-forum injury or other incident involving the product in the forum

Question Presented (from Petition)

The “relatedness” requirement of specific personal jurisdiction , last addressed by this Court in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court , 592 U.S. 351 (2021), demands that the plaintiff’s claim “arise out of or relate to” the defendant’s forum directed conduct. The question presented is: Whether a plaintiff’s claim “relates to” a defendant’s forum -directed conduct merely by alleging defects in a product the defendant sold in the forum, in the absence of any in -forum injury or other incident involving the product in the forum.

Docket Entries

2026-01-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 5, 2026)

Attorneys

InComm Financial Services, Inc.
David Samuel KlebanPatterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, Petitioner
David Samuel KlebanPatterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, Petitioner