United States Seventh Circuit

In an antitrust and intentional tort action arising out of a dispute over the contents of a dog-pedigree software program plaintiff developed by lifting data from defendants' websites, dismissal of the action for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed in part where plaintiff's antitrust claims were not pled with sufficient specificity. However, the order is reversed in part where defendants were alleged to have used their websites -- or in the case of the Canadian defendant, blast emails to the online dog pedigree community -- to defame and tortiously generate a consumer boycott against plaintiff, knowing that he lived and operated his software business in Illinois and would be injured there.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/26/2009
• Decided 04/08/2010
• Published 04/08/2010

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ian Brenson, Lagrange, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles L. Mudd, Jr., Mudd Law Offices, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.