Legal Opinion
Plixer International, Inc. v. Scrutinizer GMBH
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 13, 2018No. 18-1195PPublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Given the particular facts of this case, we affirm the thoughtful holding of the district court that the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction against a German corporation under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(k)(2) does not offend the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution. We note that this is an area in which the Supreme Court has not yet had the occasion to give clear guidance, and so we deliberately avoid creating any broad rules.
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We take the following facts from the undisputed record. Scrutinizer GmbH (Scrutinizer) is a German corporation with…
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