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Ninth Circuit Limits Jurisdiction Over Web-Based Platforms

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In a recent decision, Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., 2023 WL 8225346 (9th Cir. Nov. 28, 2023), the Ninth Circuit held that a Canadian-based company, Shopify, which provides a web-based payment processing platform to merchants...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Ninth Circuit Recognizes ‘Catch All’ Jurisdiction Over Foreign-Based Internet IP Infringers

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In a decision that continues a trend of courts recognizing expansive jurisdiction over persons and entities engaging in intellectual property infringement through the internet, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...more

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Ruling of the regional court Frankfurt: Sea rescuer obtains a cease and desist order against former Deputy Prime Minister of...

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In a decision dated 23 September 2020 (Case No. 2-06 O 335/19), the Frankfurt Regional Court ordered the former Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, at the request of Mission Lifeline crew member Friedhold...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Internet Businesses Are Targeted By OFAC For Sanctions Violations: How To Reduce Risk

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Internet businesses are easily able to reach customers around the world. That worldwide reach, however, only increases a company’s risk of violating U.S. economic sanctions that the company might have not even realized...more

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United States v. Hoskins & Scoville v. SEC: DOJ & SEC extend their extraterritorial reach for FCPA & securities fraud charges

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The SEC and DOJ recently received positive news in two enforcement actions that had been challenged on grounds of extraterritoriality. These cases illustrate the ongoing judicial efforts to define the extraterritorial reach...more

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3 Key Issues In UK's 'Online Harms' Regulatory Framework

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How do you police the internet? That is the question that the government sought to answer with the launch of last month’s online harms white paper. The white paper, a cross-departmental collaboration between the home...more

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Three Cyberspace Courts now online and open for business

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On 9 August and 28 September 2018, the new Cyberspace Courts in Beijing and Guangzhou were officially opened. These new specialised courts, along with their equivalent one that was formed in Hangzhou in August 2017, are meant...more

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Unitary but toothless? – Limitations to jurisdiction over online EUTM infringements

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German Federal Court of Justice rules on the scope of jurisdiction of national courts - In an online context, IP infringement frequently occurs simultaneously in more than one country and so the flexibility to take action...more

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EU IP rights enforcement: yet another jurisdiction conundrum heading to Luxembourg

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The CJEU has just been posed the following questions on the interpretation of Article 97(5) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation ((EC) No. 207/2009) by the English Court of Appeal....more

Perkins Coie

Six Key Consequences of the D.C. Circuit Upholding Net Neutrality

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On its third try, the Federal Communications Commission finally got the sweeping net neutrality court victory it had been seeking for years. In US Telecom v. FCC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...more

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Coders Oppose Government Access To Encrypted Data

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A group of top coding specialists published a paper on July 6, 2015, arguing that law enforcement’s desire to access encrypted data is not only unfeasible, but would also possibly imperil the security and privacy of global...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Copyright: Europe Explores Its Boundaries - EU Expands Principle of Pan-European Jurisdiction over Copyright to Online Materials

One focus of the European Union’s Digital Agenda is to break down barriers to cross-border exploitation of intellectual property rights. Consistent with this goal, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recently dismantled...more

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Court Addresses Jurisdiction Over Alleged Tortious Internet Conduct

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By dramatically lowering the cost of disseminating information, the internet has made it possible for companies to “cybersmear” their competitors before a large potential audience at very little cost. The internet also...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Where is the Internet?

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Is the Internet a place? Apparently, no one’s entirely sure, but one federal appeals court has asked the California Supreme Court to figure it out in the context of a lawsuit that is pending against Cable News Network....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Website Activity Alone Sufficient to Confer Personal Jurisdiction Over Non-Resident Website Operator - Louis Vuitton Malletier,...

Addressing whether a lower court had personal jurisdiction over a defendant found to have defaulted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the lower court’s denial of defendant’s motion to vacate default...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Speaking Of . . . Trade Secrets - Misappropriation Justice Has International Reach: Connecticut Court Has Jurisdiction Over...

An important federal appeals court has determined that a Connecticut court has jurisdiction over a Canadian citizen whose only act in Connecticut was accessing information on a computer server located in Connecticut. In...more

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Speaking Of . . . Trade Secrets - Misappropriation Justice Has International Reach: Connecticut Court Has Jurisdiction Over...

An important federal appeals court has determined that a Connecticut court has jurisdiction over a Canadian citizen whose only act in Connecticut was accessing information on a computer server located in Connecticut. In...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Personal Jurisdiction From E-Contacts Remains An Unpredictable Issue

Originally published in the New York Law Journal on February 25, 2013. Advances in technology continue to have an interesting and quixotic effect on the way in which courts grapple with personal jurisdiction. Commercial...more

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