Jerry Don Peoples v. State

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• concluding that stream-of-commerce is not appropriate theory for personal jurisdiction in trade-secret misappropriation cases and distinguishing claims better suited to such theories
• When the parties do not raise a conflict of law issue, the court applies the law of the forum state.
• \[The plaintiff] fails to acknowledge that there is a reason why the stream of commerce theory is typically associated only with products liability suits.\
• \[The plaintiff] fails to acknowledge that there is a reason why the stream of commerce theory is typically associated only with products liability suits.\
• “Because the defendants themselves did not acquire, disclose, or use J.S.T.’s trade secrets in Illinois, the link between the Illinois sales and their misappropriation of J.S.T.’s trade secrets is attenuated.”
• “In the absence of intervening guidance from the Supreme Court, we have reasoned that the Court adopted the stream of commerce theory in World-Wide Volkswagen and has not overruled it since.”’

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