· 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
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- 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.”
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Judges: Gorsuch, Baldock, Bacharach
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