Defensive Personal Jurisdiction Discovery – Why Not?

Sometimes it can be easy to believe that a random thought can conjure a real-life response. Such as when you imagine yourself taking a vacation to someplace warm and tropical (not at all brought on by mid-January temps in the Mid-Atlantic) and suddenly every other commercial you see has a palm tree, a hammock, and white sands. For a brief second, it's like your television is talking directly to you. We understand in this day and age of targeted advertising based on search history it's a little less remarkable, but nonetheless.

So too do we here at the DDL blog sometimes post on a topic only to have a decision directly on point come down just a short time later. That is precisely what happened with our post Are Defendants Entitled to Jurisdictional Discovery? A little less than one month later, the District of Utah answered that question in the affirmative in Young v. Bridgestone Ams. Tire Operations, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3053 (D. Utah Jan. 6, 2021). We refer you