McNamee v. Clemens

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a court may take judicial notice of an indictment, but not for the truth of the allegations contained therein
• describing the factors considered to determine whether a non-domiciliary has transacted business in New York
• describing the factors considered to determine whether a non-domiciliary has transacted business in New York, including whether the defendant has an ongoing contractual relationship with a New York corporation and whether there is a choice-of-law clause in any such contract
• defendant, “one of the most prominent pitchers in baseball history,” accused plaintiff, defendant’s former trainer, of lying to the public and the Government about defendant’s steroid use
• “Colloquial phrases like ‘shake down’ or ‘crawling up your back’ are hyperbolic; they are ‘loose’ statements that don’t reasonably convey the specificity that would suggest that [the defendant] was seriously accusing [the plaintiffs] of committing [a] crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).