LabMD, Inc. v. Tiversa, Inc.

LabMD, Inc., a Georgia corporation, appeals the dismissal of its diversity lawsuit for lack of personal jurisdiction over Defendants Tiversa, Inc. (a Pennsylvania corporation), Trustees of Dartmouth College (a New Hampshire college), and M. Eric Johnson (a New Hampshire resident). No reversible error has been shown; we affirm.

LabMD’s complaint arose out of an article written by Johnson — a Dartmouth professor — entitled “Data Hemorrhages in the Health-Care Sector.” Johnson worked in collaboration with Tiversa, a company that monitors global peer-to-peer network searches and provides…