Illinois asbestos judge likely to allow broad jurisdictional discovery before ruling on specific jurisdiction for out-of-state defendants
Seventh Circuit rules tie between alleged trade secret infringement and Illinois sales too attenuated to support specific personal jurisdiction
Are you at home in the jurisdiction where you are being sued? Did the cause of action arise from your contacts in that jurisdiction? If you are a corporate defendant in a lawsuit and neither applies to your company, you should probably at least raise an objection to Personal Jurisdiction in your initial response to preserve it, if for no other reason. Once you have done that, there is a decent chance the other side will serve you with discovery relating to Personal Jurisdiction. That discovery may be directly related to whether you are “at home” in the forum state, it may contain requests ...
