Choice Healthcare, Inc. v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Colorado insurer was not subject to personal jurisdiction notwithstanding its “agreement to participate in the Multiplan PPO through which it would receive discounted rates for services rendered by [the provider] in Louisiana”
• concluding no general personal jurisdiction existed in part because defendant lacked officer, property, accounts, taxes, business license, and business in the forum
• \Deriving revenue from such commercial activity is the quid pro quo for requiring the defendant to suffer a suit in the foreign forum.\
• reasoning that deriving revenue from a “sales or distribution network” designed to nationally market products “is the quid pro quo for requiring the defendant to suffer a suit in the foreign forum” (citations omitted)
• finding no purposeful availment in the forum by non-resident insurer where its insured, by their own volition, went to the forum for treatment
• finding the intermittent payments to a forum over the course of three years was insufficient for general jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).