{"id":2296,"date":"2018-11-29T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2018-12-09T12:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:30:42","slug":"personal-jurisdiction-in-a-dj-action-must-be-based-on-intentional-conduct-directed-at-the-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"Personal Jurisdiction in a DJ Action Must be based on Intentional Conduct Directed at the Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Maxchief Investments Ltd. v. Wok & Pan, Ind., Inc.<\/a>, [2018-1121](November 29, 2018), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Maxchief’s\u00a0declaratory judgment tortious interference claims, because of lack of\u00a0personal jurisdiction over Wok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wok sued Staples in California for infringement of Wok’s\u00a0U.S. Patent Nos. 5,957,061,\u00a08,881,661, 8,931,421, and 9,089,204 on folding tables,\u00a0 Staples demanded the distributor Meco defend the action pursuant to an indemnity, and Meco demanded that Maxchief defend the action pursuant to an indemnity.\u00a0 Maxchief brought a declaratory judgment action against Wok in the Eastern District of Tennessee, alleging specific personal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The district court held that Maxchief failed to allege that\u00a0Wok had sufficient minimum contacts with Tennessee,\u00a0because although Wok sought to enforce the patents\u00a0against other parties in other courts, Wok did not seek\u00a0to enforce its patents in the forum state of Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minimum contacts inquiry involves two related\u00a0requirements: (1) the defendant must have purposefully\u00a0directed its conduct at the forum state; and (2) the claim must arise out of or relate to\u00a0the defendant\u2019s contacts with the forum.\u00a0 A declaratory judgment claim arises out of the patentee\u2019s
contacts with the forum state only if those contacts relate in some material way to the enforcement or\u00a0the defense of the patent, and thus the minimum contacts prong\u00a0requires some enforcement activity in the forum state by\u00a0the patentee.\u00a0 It is not enough\u00a0that Wok\u2019s lawsuit might have \u201ceffects\u201d in Tennessee, rather, jurisdiction \u201cmust be based on intentional conduct\u00a0by the defendant\u201d directed at the forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Circuit concluded that Maxchief had not established that personal jurisdiction over Wok is proper in Tennessee, and affirmed the district court\u2019s dismissal of\u00a0Maxchief\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Maxchief Investments Ltd. v. Wok & Pan, Ind., Inc., [2018-1121](November 29, 2018), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Maxchief’s\u00a0declaratory judgment tortious interference claims, because of lack of\u00a0personal jurisdiction over Wok. Wok sued Staples in California for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurisdiction"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}