Vignie v. Blache

How courts have described this case

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• noting that defendant \would have to demonstrate a special or unusual burden\ and that cross-country travel for a large corporation does not typically meet that burden
• recognizing Massachusetts has a strong interest in adjudicating a purported harm suffered by a blind resident
• concluding company’s nominal sales in Massachusetts, field market representative in Massachusetts and registration to do business in the state satisfied the “transacting business” prong
• noting that defendant “would have to demonstrate a special or unusual burden” and that cross-country travel for a large corporation does not typically meet that burden
• noting that the same two out-of-state plaintiffs who bring claims in this case, Access Now and New, did not have a basis for asserting personal jurisdiction over the defendant
• finding company transacted business when it did two percent of its business in Massachusetts, employed field marketing representative in the state, and registered to do business in the state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).