Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. v. Hockerson-Halberstadt, Inc.

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• finding the forum contacts of licensees “insufficient” to submit licensor to personal jurisdiction where licensor had “no control over [licensees’] activities”
• finding the forum contacts of licensees “insufficient” to submit licensor to personal jurisdiction where licensor had “no control over [licensees’] activities”
• explaining how the patentee/licensor’s, not the licensee’s, contacts with the forum is the critical inquiry
• affirming a finding that personal jurisdiction was not established when a non-resident defendant sent three cease-and-desist letters to a forum resident because such letters “without more” do not satisfy due process requirements
• likening an offer for a license within a cease and desist letter to offer of settlement, and 3 Page numbers in citations to documents in the record specify the page number designated by the court’s electronic case filing (ECF
• courts must apply Federal Circuit law when determining “personal jurisdiction in declaratory judgment actions that involve patentees as defendants”

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