Compuserve, Incorporated v. Richard S. Patterson, Individually, and Flashpoint Development

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1996-07-22

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BAILEY BROWN, Circuit Judge. In a case that requires us to consider the scope of the federal courts’ jurisdictional powers in a new context, a computer network giant, CompuServe, appeals the dismissal, for lack of personal jurisdiction, of its complaint in which it sought a declaratory judgment that it had not infringed on the defendants’ common law copyrights or otherwise eng…

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