Legal Opinion
Cybersell, Inc. v. Cybersell, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1997No. 96-17087PublishedCited by 314 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge.
We are asked to hold that the allegedly infringing use of a service mark in a home page on the World Wide Web suffices for personal jurisdiction in the state where the holder of the mark has its principal place of business. Cybersell, Inc., an Arizona corporation that advertises for commercial services over the Internet, claims that Cybersell, Inc., a Florida corporation that offers web page construction services over the Internet, infringed its federally registered mark and should be amenable to suit in Arizona because cyberspace is without borders and a web site which…
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