Washington Shoe Company v. A-Z Sporting Goods Inc

How courts have described this case

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• holding copyright infringement necessarily causes harm in the forum state, but it is willful infringement that directs the harm at the forum state
• noting that it is foreseeable that the economic harm that the holder of an intellectual property right suffers from. its infringement will be felt in the holder’s home state
• finding the first prong satisfied where the defendant sold merchandise that allegedly infringed upon the plaintiffs copyright
• “intentionally engaging in the actual, physical acts of purchasing and selling the allegedly infringing boots”
• intentional act prong met “by [defendant] intentionally 8 engaging in the actual, physical acts of purchasing and selling the allegedly infringing products”
• “[A]n intentional act is an 14 external manifestation of the actor’s intent to perform an actual, physical act in the 15 real world[.]”

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