Beverly Lesnick, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stanley S. Lesnick v. Hollingsworth & Vose Co., and Lorillard, Inc.

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• finding no purposeful availment where manufacturer of cigarette filters sold products to cigarette maker whom it knew would sell cigarettes in Maryland
• rejecting the proposition that personal jurisdiction may be exercised over a manufacturer who merely delivers its products into the stream of commerce with the expectation that the products will be purchased by consumers in the forum state
• “To permit a state to assert jurisdiction over any person in the country whose product is sold in the state simply because a person must expect that to happen destroys the notion of individual sovereignties inherent in our system of federalism.”
• “To permit a state to assert jurisdiction over any person in the country whose product is sold in the state simply because a person must expect that to happen destroys the notion of individual sovereignties inherent in our system of federalism.”

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