Omni Capital International, Ltd. v. Rudolf Wolff & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court lacked personal jurisdiction because nationwide service of process was not authorized under the rules
• holding that personal jurisdiction requires both “a constitutionally sufficient relationship between the defendant and the forum” and “a basis for the defendant’s amenability to service of summons”
• recognizing that such language \explicitly authorize[s] nationwide service of process\
• stating that the Court had no occasion to address the Fifth Amendment’s applicability to personal jurisdiction
• holding federal courts should look to the long arm statutes of the forum state when a federal statute does not provide service of process
• explaining that “before a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant, there must be more than notice to the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).