United States:
Ninth Circuit Expands Personal Jurisdiction Over Willful Copyright Infringers
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My colleagues in our Litigation practice,
Harvey Saferstein and
Nada I. Shamonki, recently authored an alert "Another
Shoe Drops in Washington: Ninth Circuit Expands Personal
Jurisdiction over Willful Copyright Infringers".
On December 17, in Washington Shoe Co. v. A-Z Sporting
Goods, Inc., the Ninth Circuit expanded the exercise by
Federal District Courts of personal jurisdiction over
out-of-jurisdiction defendants in federal copyright cases. Building
on the Supreme Court's seminal 1945 decision in Int'l
Shoe Co. v. Washington, the court explained how an Arkansas
shoe retailer that had never done business in the state of
Washington could nonetheless be subject to personal jurisdiction in
that state.
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