Nutrition & Fitness, Inc. v. Blue Stuff, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that, “even if a court finds the first-filed rule applicable, it may still make the discretionary determination that the rule should be ignored as a result of ‘special circumstances,’ such as forum shopping, anticipatory filing, or bad faith filing”
• stating that, where the same parties have filed similar litigation in separate forums, doctrines of comity “dictate that the matter should proceed in the court where the action was first filed, and that the later-filed action should be stayed, transferred, or enjoined”
• “[W]here parallel federal litigation has been filed, the court in which the litigation was first filed must decide the question of where the case should be heard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).