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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 323 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist..

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1 Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Anchor
scotus · 2021
green “must take some act by which it purposefully avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum state.” 175
2 Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist.
scotus · 2021
green “covers defendants less intimately connected with a state, but only as to a narrower class of claims.” 111
3 Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization
scotus · 2025
green “general jurisdiction lies in the forum where the defendant is domiciled or fairly regarded as at home.” 12
4 SkyHop Technologies, Inc. v. Praveen Narra
ca11 · 2023
green “the supreme court has recognized two types of personal jurisdiction: general jurisdiction . . . and specific jurisdiction.” 7
5 Jekyll Island-State Park Authority v. Polygroup Macau Limited
ca11 · 2025
green “to exercise specific jurisdiction, the defendant must have 'purposefully availed' itself of the privilege of conducting activities-that is, purposefully establishing contacts-in the forum state and there must be a sufficient nexus between those contacts and the litigation.” 7
6 Mario Del Valle v. Trivago GMBH
ca11 · 2022
green “determine whether the plaintiff has alleged sufficient facts to subject the defendant to the forum state's long-arm statute.” 6
7 North American Sugar Industries, Inc. v. Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
ca11 · 2025
green “but if a defendant challenges personal jurisdiction in a rule 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss, federal rule of civil procedure 12(i) affords the district court discretion on how to proceed.” 5

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