Compuserve, Incorporated v. Richard S. Patterson, Individually, and Flashpoint Development

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• concluding that \Patterson had sufficient contacts with Ohio to support the exercise of personal jurisdiction over him.\
• determining that “[i]f a defendant’s contacts with the forum state are related to the operative facts of the controversy, then an action will be deemed to have arisen from those contacts”
• noting that a court may consider a defendant’s undisputed factual assertions when considering a Rule 12(b)(2) motion
• determining that ‘[i]f a defendant’s contacts with the forum state are related to the operative facts of the controversy, then an action will be deemed to have arisen from those contacts’
• determining that ‘[i]f a defendant’s contacts with the forum state are related to the operative facts of the controversy, then an action will be deemed to have arisen from those contacts’
• noting that, once a plaintiff demonstrates that his or her cause of action “arose from” the defendant’s “purposeful” contacts with the forum state, “an inference arises that [the] third factor is also present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).