J. B. B. Coal Co. v. Halbert

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it would \utterly defeat the purpose of forum selection clauses\ to \mandat[e] that a plaintiff meet the constitutional minimum contacts test for personal jurisdiction as a prerequisite to enforcement of a forum selection clause\
• “[U]sing ‘[a] literal approach to interpreting forum selection clauses’ could undermine their purpose[.]”
• internal citations Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides the pleading standard for fraud claims. It requires a party to “state with particularity the circumstances constituting fraud or mistake.” Fed R. Civ. P. 9(b) (emphasis added

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