United States Second Circuit

In a copyright infringement action in which the district court dismissed the action for lack of personal jurisdiction, the Second Circuit certifies the following question to the New York Court of Appeals: In copyright infringement cases, is the situs of injury for purposes of determining long-arm jurisdiction under N.Y. C.P.L.R. section 302(a)(3)(ii) the location of the infringing action or the residence or location of the principal place of business of the copyright holder?

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/07/2010
• Decided 06/15/2010
• Published 06/15/2010

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge:, Before SACK, KATZMANN, and CHIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Dannay, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. (Thomas Kjellberg, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles Carreon, Online Media Law, PLLC, Tucson, AZ, for Defendant-Appellee.