The internet continues to lead to interesting issues of personal jurisdiction arising in cases in New York courts. For instance, the New York Court of Appeals has granted leave to appeal in a case in which the plaintiff is asserting claims for defamation and argues that the trial court should assert long-arm jurisdiction over the defendants at least in part because the allegedly defamatory statements had been placed on a website.[FOOTNOTE 1]
Even questions that seemingly have been resolved continue to arise and to be analyzed. In one recent case, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York examined whether two websites subjected the defendants to personal jurisdiction in New York. The court declined to exercise jurisdiction over the defendants after determining that the plaintiff had failed to establish a prima facie case that they had transacted business through the two websites or that the websites had a substantial relationship to the underlying action.[FOOTNOTE 2]
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