Patent Rights Protection Group, LLC v. Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.

LINN, Circuit Judge.

Patent Rights Protection Group, LLC (“Patent Rights”) appeals an order of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada granting SPEC International, Ine.’s (“SPEC”) and Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.’s (“VGT”) motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and denying Patent Rights’ request for jurisdictional discovery. Because the district court erred in concluding that exercising personal jurisdiction over SPEC and VGT would be unreasonable and abused its discretion in denying jurisdictional discovery on this basis, we vacate and remand.

I. Background

P…