M-R Logistics, LLC v. Riverside Rail, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “transacting any business” under Massachusetts law “is interpreted very broadly”
• noting that “transacting any business” under Massachusetts law “is interpreted very broadly”
• declining to apply a forum selection clause to corporate officers who signed the agreement only in their official capacities
• explaining that “[t]he relevant case law has developed almost exclusively in the context of corporations and corporate officers, but there appears to be no reason why the same principles should not apply with equal force to a limited liability company and its members”
• “[I]t is axiomatic that jurisdiction over the individual officers of a corporation may not be based on jurisdiction over the corporation.” (internal quotations omitted)
• “[I]t is axiomatic that ‘jurisdiction over the individual officers of a corporation may not be based on jurisdiction over the corporation.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).