The Blog's Personal Jurisdiction Resources

We've heard that we should welcome some new subscribers, who aren't that interested in drug and device litigation, per se, but have been attracted by our coverage of personal jurisdiction issues relating to tort litigation generally. Thanks for joining. Here is a brief description of our available personal jurisdiction resources.

First, we maintain a personal jurisdiction " cheat sheet." Because we don't believe in doing the other side's work for them, a cheat sheet contains only decisions with favorable results for defendants. The current cheat sheet contains a complete list of decisions rejecting so-called "jurisdiction by consent" going back to the 1950s. The cheat sheet is updated at least monthly with new, favorable cases. The current cheat sheet also lists decisions since Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017) ("BMS"), that deny personal jurisdiction under its "arising from"/"related to" test.