EDNY court exercises personal jurisdiction over defendant whose contacts with New York consist of three trap sales to plaintiff and fairly successful ‘stores’ on Amazon and eBay.

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Tag this as NY long arm jurisdiction file.

Plaintiff alleges that Defendants’ infringing actions include selling McPherson’s book, “DO Something: Make Your Life Count,” in New York, promoting McPherson’s book in New York and advertising and offering items for sale to New York residents via interactive websites. Plaintiff has made a prima facie showing that

After Iowa defendant began using same mark as Arkansas plaintiff, defendant attended a single meeting in Arkansas to discuss taking a license. This meeting did not give rise to specific personal jurisdiction in Arkansas.

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Personal jurisdiction is a matter of state law. NY copyright owner (Penguin) sues Oregon/Arizona entity in New York for uploading copyrighted works onto website.  The Federal District Court dismisses for lack of long arm jurisdiction under NY’s statute.  Looking to NY’s highest court for interpretation of its state statute, the Second Circuit certified the following

This is now the latest Second Circuit decision on minimum contacts in NY in an IP context.
Chloe sues Defendant. Defendant sold 52 non-Chole bags into NY and one alleged Chloe-counterfeit to Chloe’s NY law firm. The 2d Cir finds the totality of those sales sufficient for personal jurisdiction Page 18: the court says that

In a copyright action involving works uploaded to the Internet, does New York jursidiction lie over an out-of-state defendant with no contacts with New York, if, inter alia, the defendant is alleged to have committed a tortious act outside the State that caused, and reasonably should have been expected by the putative defendant to cause,

Plaintiff alleges that Baidu, China’s largest search engine, infirnged its copyrights. Held: (1) Baidu’s designated US agent, CT Corp., may limit its agency to service of process to matters relating only to securities; and (2) Baidu’s NASDAQ listing constitutes insufficient contacts for purposes of NY personal jurisdiction.
Decision Baidu Service Personal Jursidiction

Virginia defendant operates a website that allows listeners to listen to music, create playlists and to download ringtones. Site is advertiser-sponsored and targeted at the Indian non-resident population. NY plaintiff sues in NY. It has no specific allegations of sales or other contacts with NY, but makes inferential arguments based on fact that 15% of