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MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. v. Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., dba Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 171003 · judgment March 22, 2018
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and a business petitioner, and down for a business respondent.
Question presented
Whether the Due Process Clause permits a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant based on the contacts of the defendant’s alleged co-conspirators with the forum State, as the court below held; or whether the due process analysis looks only to the defendant’s own contacts with the forum State and not those of alleged co-conspirators, as the Nebraska and Texas Supreme Courts have held. (I)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Patrick Elwood
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
For respondent
Brett Alexander Spain
Willcox & Savage, P.C.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 15 2018Petition DENIED.
- Sep 26 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/12/2018.
- Sep 24 2018Reply of petitioner MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. filed. (Distributed)
- Sep 06 2018Brief of respondent Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., d/b/a Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. in opposition filed.
- Aug 03 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 6, 2018)