Gather, Inc. v. GATHEROO, LLC

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• concluding that the relatedness prong is easily met when trademark infringement claim arose from a website that allegedly caused harm to plaintiff in forum state
• concluding that the relatedness prong is easily met when trademark infringement claim arose from a website that allegedly caused harm to plaintiff in forum state
• relying on Zippo analysis in concluding that Internet company had purposefully availed itself of the benefits of the forum state through use of its website
• implementing “sliding scale” analysis in which exercise of personal jurisdiction is dependent on the degree of interactivity of website
• finding purposeful availment based in part on the defendant’s direct communications with users in the forum state
• finding purposeful availment where a website not only permitted filtering by state, but also “accept[ed] members from [the forum state],” “solicit[ed] their continued business,” and “communicat[ed] directly with [forum state] users”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).