Contemporary Electric, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

How courts have described this case

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• analogizing the Lanham Act’s application to purely intrastate activities to the Act’s application to purely foreign activities
• discussing when a domestic subsidiary may be so intertwined with a foreign parent so as to serve as a “general agent” for service of process
• noting alter ego principles employed as an alternative ground to support jurisdiction under a quantitative “presence” analysis, in contrast with the minimum contacts approach employed when extraterritorial service was had on the non-resident itself
• clarifying Timber-lane: “although foreign activities must of course have some effect on United States foreign commerce before they can be reached, we disagree with the district court’s requirement that the effect must be substantial.”
• “a court may allow discovery to aid in determining whether it has in personam or subject matter jurisdiction”
• the existence of a conflict with a foreign trademark registration weighs against extraterritorial application of the Lanham Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).