Hicklin Engineering, Inc. v. Aidco, Inc., John Wyatt, Tracy Church & David Foor

How courts have described this case

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• holding that allegedly defamatory statements about a business in Iowa, sent to out-of-state customers, did not invoke Calder even though competitive effects were felt in Iowa
• holding that allegedly defamatory statements about a business in Iowa, sent to out-of-state customers, did not invoke Calder even though competitive effects were felt in Iowa
• noting that the Calder court found intentional targeting of forum state in support of personal jurisdiction; and finding effects alone without additional contacts insufficient to bestow personal jurisdiction
• noting that the Calder court found intentional targeting of forum state in support of personal jurisdiction; and finding effects alone without additional contacts insufficient to bestow personal jurisdiction
• noting that defendant’s “[pjosting on the internet from Colorado an allegedly defamatory statement including the name “Missouri” does not create the type of substantial relationship between defendant and the forum required to confer personal jurisdiction”
• “None of the correspondence, however, was published in Iowa. Nor can we say that Aidco’s actions were targeted to have an effect in Iowa.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).