United States Fourth Circuit

In a trademark infringement and unfair competition suit arising from a licensing agreement between schools in Virginia and India, district court had personal jurisdiction over Defendants under Virginia's long-arm statute, where the parties' 1984 meeting in Virginia sparked a substantial business relationship of correspondence and collaboration that lasted until 1997.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2009
• Published 01/09/2009

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Phillip Charrow, Greenberg Traurig, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Stephen Patrick Demm, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  G. Roxanne Elings, David Saenz, Natalia McNamara, Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Appellant.  W. Jeffery Edwards, William H. Wright, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.