Legal Opinion

Consulting Engineers Corp. v. Geometric Ltd.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided March 23, 2009No. 07-1453PublishedCited by 479 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DUNCAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge TRAXLER and Judge AGEE joined.

OPINION

DUNCAN, Circuit Judge:

Consulting Engineers Corp. (“CEC”) sued Structure Works, LLC (“Structure Works”) and Geometric Software Solutions (“Geometric”) in Virginia, asserting various tort and contract claims. Structure Works and Geometric moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The district court granted the motions, and CEC appealed. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I

This dispute arose from a series of interactions among three companies involving a software and…

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