Clark's Heirs v. Boyd

How courts have described this case

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

• finding personal jurisdiction when the out-of-state defendant sent email, phone, and fax communications that “contained the allegedly fraudulent and misleading information on which [the plaintiff] bases his claim”
• applying fiduciary shield when defendant “acted at the direction” of others
• “[T]he Illinois Supreme Court suggested that [it is] the element of compulsion involved in an employee’s contacts with Illinois [that] ma[kes] it unfair to assert jurisdiction over him.”
• “Since controverted facts are resolved in Levin’s favor for the purpose of this motion, the court finds that Levin has sufficiently alleged and supported the contention that Young was aware that Levin resided in Illinois.”
• “The Seventh Circuit has explained . . . that emails may be properly considered in minimum contact analyses, especially if they were purposefully sent to a forum resident knowing that they would be read in the forum.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).