United States Federal Circuit

Personal jurisdiction exists over an out of state defendant where (1) defendant obtained a Texas state court injunction, (2) defendant was a named inventor of a patent for a trailing axle, and (3) defendants sent letters to plaintiff's customers outside Iowa concerning the Texas injunction and the patent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2003
• Published 04/16/2003

Judges

• DYK, Circuit Judge., Before LINN, DYK, and PROST, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christine Lebrón Dykeman, McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C., of Des Moines, Iowa, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With her on the brief were Edmund J. Sease and Jeffrey D. Harty.   Of counsel was Ronald M. Sotak.


• For Appellees:
  
• Roger T. Stetson, Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn, A Professional Corporation, of Des Moines, Iowa, argued for defendants-appellees.   With him on the brief was Margaret C. Callahan.