Jantzen Knitting Mills v. A. Balmuth, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the situs of injury” for an infringement action is the copyright holder’s principal place of business
• recognizing that the uploading of a published literary work to the internet would necessarily threaten book sales, to the financial detriment of the copyright holder
• distinguishing the locus of injury in commercial cases from those in physical injury cases
• “[T]he injury to a New York copyright holder, while difficult to quantify, is not as remote as a purely indirect financial loss due to the broad spectrum of rights accorded by copyright law.”
• \[A] New York copyright owner alleging infringement sustains an in-state injury pursuant to CPLR 302(a)(3)(ii) when its printed literary work is uploaded without permission onto the Internet for public access.\
• “In Sybron, we made clear that a tort committed outside the state that .was likely to cause harm through the loss of business inside the state was sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction regardless of whether damages were likely recoverable or even ascertainable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).