Wilson v. DIRECTBUY, INC.

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• deciding that class action lawsuits give this factor less weight and when there is a great disparity, it only slightly tips the balance in favor of a plaintiff’s chosen forum
• finding locus at headquarters where promotional materials and pricing scheme originated from defendants’ headquarters and was disseminated to franchisees in other states
• “the Second Circuit ... has acknowledged that district courts may give less weight to this factor in national class actions”
• although defendant corporation would have higher burden litigating outside of proposed transferee forum, defendant did not show that “burden would be undue,” and relative means factor therefore did not tip in defendant’s favor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).