Norman Williams v. Romarm, SA

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• holding that “minimum contacts between the foreign state and the forum state are not required for a court to constitutionally exert personal jurisdiction over the state”
• explaining that court may order jurisdictional discovery where plaintiff has “good faith belief that such discovery” will develop facts to support jurisdiction
• approving district court's decision to address personal jurisdiction before deciding whether it had subject matter jurisdiction
• affirming the district court’s denial of jurisdictional discovery 25 where the questions plaintiffs sought answers to “lack[ed] specificity to the District”
• approving district court’s decision to address personal jurisdiction before deciding whether it had subject matter jurisdiction
• “[T]he 28(j) process should not be employed as a second opportunity to brief an issue not raised in the initial briefs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).