specific-jurisdiction

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25-912 InComm Financial Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2026-02-03 Pending civil-procedure defendant-conduct forum-directed-conduct personal-jurisdiction product-defect specific-jurisdiction 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,…
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless …
25A782 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Application asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh…
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25A599 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-20 Application forum-state internet-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment social-media specific-jurisdiction Whether the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over an internet-based company requires a direct causal connection between the defendant's foru…
25-436 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. Blanca Hernandez, et al. California 2025-10-09 Denied due-process foreign-manufacturer independent-distributor personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
25-410 Sondra J. Schneider v. Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, P.A. District of Columbia 2025-10-06 Denied civil-procedure defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
25-349 Audi AG v. L. W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) due-process foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
25A54 Audi AG v. L.W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-07-14 Presumed Complete foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-distribution purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce Whether a foreign manufacturer can be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in a state court based solely on the distribution of its products thro…
24-1154 Clearstream Banking, S.A. v. Deborah D. Peterson, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived asset-execution correspondent-account due-process foreign-garnishee personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether due process is violated by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign garnishee to execute against an asset that has never been …
24-1012 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Martin J. O’Leary, et al. Montana 2025-03-21 Denied choice-of-law legal-malpractice multi-jurisdictional-practice personal-jurisdiction professional-liability specific-jurisdiction Is a lawyer with a multi-jurisdictional law practice subject to specific personal jurisdiction for a legal malpractice claim in a state where the lawy…
24-867 IQVIA Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-02-13 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process employment-law noncompete-agreement personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant in a preemptive action …
24-653 Zembrka, et al. v. American Girl, LLC Second Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response Waived e-commerce interactive-website minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence Whether an e-commerce seller's virtual presence and conduct operating an interactive website constitutes 'minimum contacts' sufficient to establish sp…
24-587 Scandinavian Airlines System, aka SAS, dba Scandinavian Airlines of North America, Incorporated v. Susan Hardy Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment foreign-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment authorizes federal courts to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation …
23-1320 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1) can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug
23A836 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete due-process generic-drugs personal-jurisdiction pharmaceutical-litigation specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability Whether a brand-name pharmaceutical company can be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in a state for warning-label liability claims involving g…
23-874 Impossible X LLC v. Impossible Foods Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied causation civil-procedure declaratory-judgment declaratory-relief due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction trademark-noninfringement Does Ford create a categorical rule that specific jurisdiction does not require any link between the defendant's forum contacts and the plaintiff's in…
23-290 Marc Grano, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Barron, et al. v. El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd., dba Las Palmas Medical Center New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts forum-state fundamental-fairness healthcare-system medical-care medical-referral personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether specific personal jurisdiction in a forum state over a nonresident hospital and healthcare system is permissible
23-232 BASF Metals Limited, et al. v. KPFF Investment, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Amici (3) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy due-process forum-contacts jurisdictional-requirements personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether due process permits a court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on the forum contacts of an alleged co-conspirat…
23-24 Grist Mill Capital, LLC v. Universitas Education, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction reasonableness rule-60-motion specific-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the Panel was correct in not following major decisions of both this Court including Daimler v. Baumann and International Shoe and its progeny …
22-1129 Faraz Fadavi Akhavan Bonab v. Samuel Ginn California 2023-05-19 Denied Response Waived business-relationship due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific jurisdiction over a defendant when the plaintiff…
22-937 VNG Corporation v. Lang Van, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rule internet-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(2) specific-jurisdiction Whether traditional due process principles apply to the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over defendants based on their universally accessib…
22-802 Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier Oklahoma 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to customers…
22-641 Daimler Trucks North America LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process forum-activities forum-contacts non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction product-liability residency specific-jurisdiction territorial-limits Whether specific personal jurisdiction is limited to circumstances where a nonresident serves a market for a product in the forum and the product caus…
22-477 Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent Should the requirement that a plaintiff's cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign natio…
22-467 HANWJH v. NBA Properties, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice interactive-website international-shoe-standard minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction single-sale specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement is met to establish specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant
22-82 Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar…
21-506 Amec Foster Wheeler plc v. Enterprise Products Operating LLC Texas 2021-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency-theory claim-by-claim-analysis corporate-defendant due-process forum-contacts purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction Whether due process requires a claim-by-claim analysis for specific jurisdiction
21-494 Ralph Lewis v. Power Research, Inc., et al. Nevada 2021-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-effects-test conflict-of-laws corporate-officer due-process forum-activities nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction walden-v-fiore Whether the Nevada Supreme Court correctly held that a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant where the defendant does not…
21-478 Ee Hoong Liang v. Panircelvan Kaliannan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction summary-judgment Questions Presented
21-4 C. Al Buis v. DLI Assets Bravo, LLC Virginia 2021-07-06 Denied Response Waived borrower-agreement consent consent-clause due-process forum-selection forum-selection-clause guaranty-agreement loan-guaranty personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court can exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state guarantor based solely on a co-defendant's consent to a forum-s…
20-1821 Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. New Jersey 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether internet commerce determines personal jurisdiction of foreign corporations
20-984 Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (1) cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal-jurisdiction in another forum-state when it sends a single cease-and-desist-letter to…
20-389 Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal?
20-374 Continental Resources, Inc. v. Zachary Buckles, Deceased, By and Through His Personal Representative, Nicole R. Buckles, et al. Montana 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process federalism forum-contacts independent-contractors personal-jurisdiction sovereign-interest specific-jurisdiction tort-liability vicarious-liability Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement of the personal-jurisdiction test is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the pl…
20-327 BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. Texas 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas Whether the Texas courts' supplemental specific personal jurisdiction doctrine is inconsistent with the Due Process Clause
20-231 Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation, et al. v. The Water Works and Sewer Board of the Town Centre, et al. Alabama 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process in-state-effects out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party third-party-conduct unilateral-actions Whether a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant because the defendant knew (or should have known) that its …
19-6499 John Berman v. David Modell California 2019-11-05 Denied IFP benefit-analysis civil-procedure due-process forum-state intentional-tort long-arm-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Does a court err by requiring a plaintiff to show what 'benefit' the defendant derived from intentional and allegedly tortuous actions aimed at the pl…
19-369 Ford Motor Company v. Adam Bandemer Minnesota 2019-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
19-368 Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, et al. Montana 2019-09-19 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'arise out of or relate to' requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl…
18-998 Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and, i…
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a nationwide class action when the alleged conduct …
18-311 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachussetts Massachusetts 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) commerce-clause conflict-among-courts court-compulsion due-process general-jurisdiction investigatory-document-request investigatory-request jurisdiction-basis minimum-contacts nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party-contacts unrelated-subject-matter Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporation to compel its compliance with an investigatory document request wher…
18-165 DHL Supply Chain v. DEX Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied calder-effects-test civil-procedure due-process electronic-server foreign-defendant forum-state internet-jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence Whether a U.S. court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant based solely on the defendant's 'virtual presence' through electronic…