United States Sixth Circuit

In an action seeking the return of trade secret information, the dismissal of the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed, where Defendant's dealings with Plaintiff in Tennessee and jurisdiction over a highly integrated group of transactions should be adjudicated as a whole and not piecemeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/20/2009
• Published 04/20/2009

Judges

• Before: MERRITT, ROGERS, and WHITE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Richard W. Foltz, Jr., Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellant.  Sydney B. McDole, Jones Day, Dallas, Texas, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Richard W. Foltz, Jr., Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, W. Kyle Carpenter, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Sydney B. McDole, Jones Day, Dallas, Texas, W. Thomas Dillard, Wayne A. Ritchie II, Ritchie, Dillard & Davies, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellees.