Amini Innovation Corp. v. JS IMPORTS INC.

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• finding that plaintiff could not make a prima facie showing of purposeful availment because there was no evidence defendants conducted actual commercial transactions or conducted business with California residents via the website
• applying Ninth Circuit’s Calder “effects” test in patent infringement suit due to dearth of analysis in the Federal Circuit
• finding the purposeful direction test satisfied where the defendants willfully infringed upon the plaintiffs copyrights and the plaintiff alleged that the defendants “must have known it was located in California”
• finding the purposeful 19 direction test satisfied where the defendants willfully infringed upon the plaintiff's 20 copyrights and the plaintiff alleged that the defendants “must have known it was 21 located in California”
• “Generally, the fact that a plaintiff has filed suit in the district where it resides is a sufficient connection to accord its choice of forum deference.”
• “Generally, the fact that a plaintiff has filed suit in the district where it resides is a sufficient connection to accord its choice of forum deference.”

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