Legal Opinion
Baskin-Robbins Franchising LLC v. Alpenrose Dairy, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 6, 2016No. 15-2190PPublishedCited by 233 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This bi-coastal commercial dispute requires us to test the outer limits of a court’s in personam jurisdiction, consistent with the constraints of the Due Process Clause. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. The district court concluded that the defendant lacked sufficient contacts with the forum state (Massachusetts) to permit the exercise of jurisdiction and, accordingly, dismissed the action. See Baskin-Robbins Franchising, LLC v. Alpenrose Dairy, Inc., No. 14-13771, 2015 WL 5680332, at *2 (D. Mass. Sept. 25, 2015). Concluding, as we do, that the district court miscalibrated…
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