Legal Opinion
Compuserve, Incorporated v. Richard S. Patterson, Individually, and Flashpoint Development
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1996No. 95-3452PublishedCited by 614 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY BROWN, Circuit Judge.
In a case that requires us to consider the scope of the federal courts’ jurisdictional powers in a new context, a computer network giant, CompuServe, appeals the dismissal, for lack of personal jurisdiction, of its complaint in which it sought a declaratory judgment that it had not infringed on the defendants’ common law copyrights or otherwise engaged in unfair competition. The district court held that the electronic links between the defendant Patterson, who is a Texan, 1 and Ohio, where CompuServe is headquartered, were “too tenuous to support the exercise of…
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