McNeal v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• jurisdiction over out-of-state defendant who offered infringing products to Illinois residents through a storefront on Aliexpress.com
• defendants affirmatively created a shipping option on their website to ship counterfeit goods to Illinois
• specific jurisdiction existed over out-of-state sellers of counterfeited merchandise based on offering merchandise for sale over the internet in Illinois and the purchase of the products by consumers in Illinois
• jurisdictional allegations are accepted as true, but if a defendant submits evidence in opposition to the exercise of jurisdiction, plaintiff must go beyond the pleadings and submit affirmative evidence to support it
• defendants “expressly elected to do business with the residents of all fifty states, including Illinois,” where they “intentionally created and operated commercial, fully interactive AliExpress Internet stores” and “affirmatively selected a shipping template to ship” products to Illinois
• finding jurisdiction where defendants shipped counterfeit products to Illinois residents

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).