Trachtenberg v. Failedmessiah.com

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a “merely coincidental” relationship between an online article accessed in New York and the cause of action “does not suffice to confer jurisdiction” and collecting cases
• “In cases involving allegedly defamatory content published by an out-of-state media outlet, courts have found transactions only when the content in question was based on research physically conducted in New York.”
• “[A]n opposition cannot be used to amend a complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hanson v. Denckla
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 7,025×
• Calder v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-20· cited 3,198×
• Marine Midland Bank, N.A. v. James W. Miller
  Second Circuit· 1981-11-20· cited 733×
• Best Van Lines, Inc. v. Tim Walker, Docket No. 04-3924-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2007-06-26· cited 536×
• McGowan v. Smith
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-02-19· cited 371×
• A.I. Trade Finance, Inc. v. Petra Bank
  Second Circuit· 1993-03-15· cited 312×
• Pino Distefano v. Carozzi North America, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2001-10-18· cited 302×
• McKee Electric Co. v. Rauland-Borg Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1967-07-07· cited 245×
• Peterson v. Spartan Industries, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-03-28· cited 189×
• Licci v. Lebanese Canadian Bank, SAL
  New York Court of Appeals· 2012-11-20· cited 189×
• Blumenthal v. Drudge
  District of Columbia· 1998-04-22· cited 115×
• Stuto v. Fleishman
  Second Circuit· 1999-01-21· cited 111×
• Ilya D. Levin v. John McPhee the New Yorker Magazine, Inc., and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-17· cited 98×
• Jacobson v. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
  S.D. New York· 1977-08-18· cited 95×
• Johnson v. Ward
  New York Court of Appeals· 2005-05-05· cited 92×
• Copp v. Ramirez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2009-02-24· cited 59×
• Thai v. Cayre Group, Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2010-07-08· cited 46×
• Talbot v. Johnson Newspaper Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-03-17· cited 44×
• Sweeney v. Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-03-02· cited 42×
• Capitol Records, LLC v. VideoEgg, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2009-03-09· cited 41×