Darrell J. Bird v. Marshall Parsons, Stephen Vincent, George Decarlo, Dotster, Inc., and afternic.com, Inc.

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• holding that “the fact that [defendant] maintains a website that is accessible to anyone over the Internet is insufficient to justify general jurisdiction”
• holding that even the alleged marginal contacts of registering an internet domain name in a forum state meet the “arising from” threshold
• holding that maintaining a website and allowing Ohio residents to register domain names was insufficient to establish general jurisdiction over the non-resident defendant
• holding that because plaintiff’s unfair competition allegations relate to defendants’ alleged use of plaintiff’s trademark, failure to show that defendants unlawfully used the trademark warrants dismissal
• holding that violation of a federal trademark law constituted a tort in Ohio because the plaintiffs principal place of business was there and the plaintiff also suffered economic harm there
• holding that defendant purposefully availed itself of the privilege of acting in the forum state by maintaining a website on which Ohio residents can register domain names and by accepting the business of Ohio residents

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