GTE New Media Services Inc. v. BellSouth Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “if a party demonstrates that it can supplement its jurisdictional allegations through discovery, then jurisdictional discovery is justified”
• holding venue portion of § 12 must be satisfied before extraterritorial service provision can confer personal jurisdiction over a corporation
• holding that specific jurisdiction “surely cannot be based solely on the ability of District residents to access the defendants’ websites, for this does not by itself show any persistent course of conduct by the defendants”
• explaining that jurisdictional discovery is justified only if the plaintiff reasonably “demonstrates that it can supplement its jurisdictional allegations through discovery”
• holding “in such cases” must refer to entire clause requiring corporate defendant to inhabit, be found in, or transact business in district
• indicating the importance of “know[ing] for certain which defendants own and operate which websites” in determining jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).