SFS Check, LLC v. First Bank of Delaware

OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge.

The main issues in this case are (1) whether answering a phone call establishes personal jurisdiction in the state from which the phone call was made; and (2) whether a bank owes a duty of care to an identity theft victim who is not a customer. SFS Check, LLC (SFS), a Michigan financial services company, processed all its transactions through its account at Fifth Third Bank. Fifth Third discovered that illegal gambling transactions were being processed through an account associated with SFS at First Bank of Delaware (FBD). Fifth Third terminated SFS’s account. SFS…