Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. v. Community Trust Financial Corp.

OPINION

COLE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. asks us to find specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants solely because the Defendants provided passwords to access online banking services to a handful of in-state residents. As the Plaintiffs cause of action only tangentially related to the Defendants’ acts within the forum state, we REVERSE the district court’s judgment finding personal jurisdiction.

I

The facts of this case are not in dispute. The Plaintiff, Community Trust Bancorp, Inc., is a Kentucky corporation that provides banking and financial…