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· 5/6/2014

Rockwood Select Asset Fund XI (6)-1, LLC v. Devine, Millimet & Branch

Citations

  • 750 F.3d 1178
  • 2014 WL 1778048
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8460

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding alleged falsehoods in an opinion letter sent from an out-of-state law firm defendant to a plaintiff in the forum state failed to establish jurisdiction
  • holding alleged falsehoods in an opinion letter sent from an out-of-state law firm defendant to a plaintiff in the forum state failed to -14- establish jurisdiction
  • finding no personal jurisdiction based solely “on interaction with a plaintiff known to bear a strong connection to the forum state” where the plaintiff was a Utah entity and the defendant directed correspondence at issue to Utah address
  • no personal- jurisdiction over the defendant be cause the plaintiffs “reliance on its own [forum state] connections is misguided” and insufficient for personal jurisdiction
  • “Walden teaches that personal jurisdiction cannot be based on interaction with a plaintiff known to bear a strong connection to the forum state.”
  • “Walden teaches that personal jurisdiction cannot be based on interaction with a plaintiff known to bear a strong connection to the forum state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Gorsuch, Baldock, Bacharach

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