Sacody Technologies, Inc. v. Avant, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding venue requirements satisfied by receipt of correspondence and telephone calls in forum district even though conduct constituting “breach” of Confidentiality Agreement occurred outside of forum state
• holding venue requirements satisfied by receipt of correspondence and telephone calls in forum district even though conduct constituting “breach” of Confidentiality Agreement occurred outside of forum state
• stating that venue standard “may be satisfied by a communication transmitted to or from the district in which the cause of action was filed, given a sufficient relationship between the communication and the cause of action”
• explaining that venue may be proper due to communications “transmitted to or from the district in which the cause of action was filed,” particularly when there is “a sufficient relationship between the communication and the cause of action”
• finding venue proper in the district where communications were issued, and issued from, when negotiating a confidentiality agreement
• finding “the prior filing of the [state action] is not significant .. . because little progress has been achieved to date in either forum” and thus holding that the factor did not favor dismissal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).