In Re Nintendo Co., Ltd.

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• \This framing of the issue reflects a recent tendency—which we noted in Reardon v. King
• holding that, “in a case featuring most witnesses and evidence closer to the transferee venue with few or no convenience factors favoring the venue chosen by the plaintiff, the trial court should grant a motion to transfer”
• holding that “in a case featuring most witnesses and evidence closer to the transferee venue with few or no convenience factors favor- ing the venue chosen by the plaintiff, the trial court should grant a motion to transfer”
• finding the citizens of the transferor venue had “no more or less of a meaningful connection to the case than any other venue” because the products were “sold throughout the United States”
• applying Fifth Circuit law to hold that this factor clearly favored transfer when some key witnesses were from Japan and “would each have to travel an additional 1,756 miles or 7 hours by plane to Texas as compared with Washington State.”
• applying Fifth Circuit law to hold that this factor clearly favored transfer when some key witnesses were from Japan and “would each have to travel an additional 1,756 miles or 7 hours by plane to Texas as compared with Washington State.”

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