RMS Titanic, Inc. v. Kingsmen Creatives, LTD.

The plaintiffs, RMS Titanic, Inc. and Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (collectively, Premier), put on museum-quality exhibitions of artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic. Premier sued two Singapore corporations, Kingsmen Creatives and Kingsmen Exhibits (collectively, Kingsmen), alleging that they had used Premier’s confidential information or trade secrets to stage their own competing Titanic exhibition in China. The district court granted Kingsmen’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction because it found that Florida’s long arm statute did not provide it with personal…