Legal Opinion

Richard Ackourey, Jr. v. Sonellas Custom Tailors

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided July 29, 2014No. 13-3818UnpublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.

Richard Ackourey, Jr. appeals an order of the District Court dismissing his copyright infringement suit against Sonella’s Custom Tailors and Dileep Kumar Das-wani for lack of personal jurisdiction under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2). Because there was an insufficient basis for personal jurisdiction, we will affirm. 1

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Since we write solely for the benefit of the parties, we recount only those facts relevant to the issues before us. Plaintiff Richard Ackourey, Jr. is a Pennsylvania resident who owns copyrights in two fashion stylebooks published in 2005 and…

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