It is axiomatic that, absent consent, a court without personal jurisdiction lacks authority to adjudicate claims brought in a lawsuit. Long ago, personal jurisdiction was relatively straightforward ...

In its seminal 2014 decision Daimler AG v. Bauman, the U.S. Supreme Court imposed strict limits on the authority of courts to exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state corporate defendants. It ...

In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky look at the interesting issue of whether a court faced with a motion requesting dismissal on grounds of lack of ...

In law school civil procedure classes, students learn what are seemingly established rules of personal jurisdiction. Corporations are subject to general jurisdiction only in two places—its state of ...

On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court added two more cases to its docket for next term. The first addresses whether states may require corporations to consent to personal jurisdiction as a condition of ...

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From Castro v. Doe, decided Monday by Judge Mark Pittman (N.D. Tex.): John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit on June 16, 2023, alleging that former President Donald Trump, among others, conspired to ...

A patentee does not subject itself to personal jurisdiction in a state by either (1) filing a lawsuit in another state seeking nationwide injunction, or (2) sending infringement notice letters into ...

I promised quite a while ago to say more about Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the personal jurisdiction case heard this term. (Transcript here; Howard Wasserman's SCOTUSBlog ...

July 27, 2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court has renewed interest in the importance of personal jurisdiction disputes.