United States Second Circuit

In defamation action based on Iowa resident's comments on his website, dismissal of complaint based on lack of personal jurisdiction under New York's "long-arm" jurisdiction statute is affirmed as, under well-settled principles of New York law, the district court did not have jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2007
• Published 06/26/2007

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, McLAUGHLIN, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Freedman (Terrence A. Oved, Darren Oved, Eric S. Crusius, on the brief), Oved & Oved, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tim Walker, Waverly, IA, Defendant-Appellee, pro se., Slade R. Metcalf (Katherine M. Bolger, on the brief), Hogan & Hartson, LLP, New York, NY, amicus curiae in support of Defendant-Appellee.