Tunis v. Corning Glass Works

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the vast weight of authority is that a finding of personal jurisdiction may not rest solely on an act . . . instigated by a plaintiff”
• “Meetings and communications that never result in a business relationship or transaction do not provide a basis for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.” (collecting cases)
• surveying “the vast weight of authority” recognizing that a plaintiff cannot rely on the “manipulative acts” of its own agent “to create jurisdiction”
• “A single act within New York will, in the proper case, satisfy the requirements of section 302(a)(1).”
• “Jurisdictional discovery also revealed that Defendants’ website ... has made only one sale in [the forum] ... to Plaintiffs’ New York-based private investigator .... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).