Tag Archives: Personal Jurisdiction

Reed Smith Attorneys to Present AdvaMed Webinar on “Top 10 Product Liability Issues”

Michael Brown and Lisa Baird from our Life Sciences Health Industry Team will be presenting an hour-long AdvaMed Medical Technology Learning Institute webinar on “Top 10 Product Liability Issues” on July 20 at 1 p.m. ET. Product liability litigation is ever-evolving, and the plaintiffs’ bar is continually adapting its business model and litigation strategy against … Continue Reading

Upcoming Reed Smith Webinar on Recent Personal Jurisdiction Rulings, What Corporations Can Learn from Them

The Reed Smith Life Sciences Health Industry Group will be hosting an upcoming CLE webinar “Personal Jurisdiction: What Bauman Does and Doesn’t Mean, the Other Side’s Response, and Why Corporations Should Care” on June 14, 2016 at 12 p.m. ET. Reed Smith presenters Jim Beck and Steve McConnell will be discussing how plaintiffs’ lawyers are … Continue Reading

Attention Out-of-State Plaintiffs: The Tour Ends Here. Next Stop, Home

Last year, the Supreme Court sent a resounding message regarding personal jurisdiction when it decided Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S.Ct. 746, 752 (2014).  Bauman announced a significantly more stringent standard for finding a corporation to be “essentially at home” in a foreign jurisdiction and, as a result, made personal jurisdiction harder to establish in … Continue Reading

Are You Sure Your Company Is “At Home” In All 50 States?

Reed Smith attorneys Jim Beck and Michelle Cheng explain in a recent Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder that the Supreme Court's decisions in Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown (2011) and Daimler AG v. Bauman (2014) have narrowed the permitted scope of "general" personal jurisdiction against corporations. As a result, corporate defendants might want to think twice before making a general appearance in new cases filed in states other than the states in which they have incorporated or have located their principal place of business.… Continue Reading

Supreme Court Rejects Expansive “Stream of Commerce” Theory of Personal Jurisdiction

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions clarifying the criteria that must be satisfied before a court may constitutionally exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant--J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown. Both decisions involved product liability suits asserted against non-U.S. manufacturers, but both have relevance as well for domestic corporations defending lawsuits under any liability theory. The decisions were highly anticipated because the cases, J. McIntyre in particular, were expected to resolve a decades-old debate about the contours of the so-called "stream of commerce" theory of personal jurisdiction. The Court delivered.… Continue Reading
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