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· 7/3/2018

People ex rel. Prieston v. Nassau County Sheriff's Dept.

Citations

  • 2018 NY Slip Op 4963

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding these contacts were insufficient to establish constitutionally required minimum contacts
  • addressing only the first three factors of minimum contacts analysis and not reaching fourth and fifth factors where first three factors not met
  • finding no jurisdiction where defendants did “nothing to ‘tether[]’ the effect of their actions to [the forum]” (first alteration in original
  • finding a lack of “purposeful avail[ment]” of Minnesota’s “benefits and protections” where plaintiff made a “vague assertion that [defendant] has ‘transacted business within’ Minnesota,” and nothing suggested that those activities were related to the lawsuit
  • “[W]hen the only connection between the defendants and the forum state is the plaintiff himself, they are not enough on their own.”
  • “[W]hen the only connection between the defendants and the forum state is the plaintiff himself, they are not enough on their own.”

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