Bulldog Investors General Partnership v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• detemrining that Commonwealth had significant interest in adjudicating violations of its securities regulations and that this interest outweighed the burden of the out-of-state defendant in litigating in Massachusetts
• proceeding before Secretary of the Commonwealth under the Uniform Securities Act alleging sale of unregistered securities
• “By its terms, the [Massachusetts] long- arm statute applies only to courts and cannot authorize an agency to exercise 13 personal jurisdiction over nonresidents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).