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In Re TCT Mobile International Limited
Paid petition
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
There can be no personal jurisdiction over a nonresi dent defendant when the only contact between that defendant and the forum state results from the “uni lateral activity of another party or a third person.” Burger King Corp. u. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462, 475 (1985). Moreover, contacts cannot be borrowed from a third party and attributed to a nonresident defendant to find personal jurisdiction. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco Cty., 137 S. Ct. 1773, 1783 (2017). The question presented is: 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defend ant that had no contacts in the forum state and did not control the shipment of products there.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Lionel Marks Lavenue
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LL
For respondent
Alfred R. Fabricant
Brown Rudnick LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 04 2020Petition DENIED.
- Apr 15 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2020.
- Mar 27 2020Waiver of right of respondent Semcon IP Inc. to respond filed.
- Jan 15 2020Petition for a writ of mandamus filed. (Response due April 6, 2020)