Aristech Chemical International Limited v. Acrylic Fabricators Limited

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that exercise of specific jurisdiction over a breach of contract case was reasonable
• stating that the travel distance between Kentucky and Ontario, Canada did not make the exercise of jurisdiction unreasonable
• finding that an order of a “specially-manufactured product” is more likely to satisfy the purposeful availment criterion
• stating that the defendant had purposefully availed itself to the forum state, in part, because “both parties envisioned a relationship . . . that would span several years”
• noting that Canadian defendants do not encounter a particularly heavy burden in light of modern transportation and communication methods and the similarity of the Canadian and American legal systems
• “[W]hen a state’s long-arm statute reaches as far as the limits of the Due Process Clause, . . . the court need only determine whether the assertion of personal jurisdiction . . . violates constitutional due process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).