United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit alleging trademark violations against a tribal corporation for cigarette packages, the district court's grant of a stay while the tribal court determined its jurisdiction is reversed where the tribal court does not have colorable jurisdiction over plaintiff-nonmember's federal and state claims for trademark infringement on the Internet and beyond the reservation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/10/2007
• Decided 01/20/2009
• Published 01/20/2009

Judges

• Before:  MELVIN BRUNETTI, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel P. Collins (argued), Kelly M. Klaus, Adam B. Badwai, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  Roberta L. Horton, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, DC;  Leslie R. Weatherhead, William M. Symmes, Witherspoon, Kelley, Davenport & Toole, Spokane, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Michael Keyes, Theresa L. Keyes, and Bart J. Freedman, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, Spokane, WA, for the defendants-appellees.