Legal Opinion
DeSantis v. Hafner Creations, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided December 30, 1996No. Civil Action 96-804-APublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
The question presented in this patent infringement suit is whether the Virginia “long-arm” statute, Virginia Code § 8.01-328.1 et seq., reaches an alleged patent in-fringer whose only contacts with Virginia were: (i) to advertise the allegedly infringing product in a nationally-distributed publication; (ii) to sell one of the allegedly infringing products, F.O.B. Florida, to an employee of plaintiffs Virginia law firm; and (in) to sell two non-infringing, unrelated products to Virginia purchasers F.O.B. Florida.
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Plaintiff, Eugene DeSantis, d/b/a…
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