ACTION EMBROIDERY v. ATLANTIC EMBROIDERY

No. 02-56770.

368 F.3d 1174 (2004)

ACTION EMBROIDERY CORPORATION, a California Corporation; Vanguard Industries East, Inc., a Virginia Corporation with its principal place of business in California, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ATLANTIC EMBROIDERY, INC., a Virginia Corporation, Defendant, and Wolcott, Rivers, Wheary, Basnight, Kelly P.C., a Virginia Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 27, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Petersen, Weissman, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall, LLP, Beverly Hills, CA, for the Appellants.

James Anthony Murphy, Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney, San Francisco, CA, for the Appellee.

Before PREGERSON, COWEN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants Action Embroidery Corp. ("Action") and Vanguard Industries East, Inc. ("Vanguard") appeal the district court's dismissal of their federal antitrust and state-law suit against Wolcott, Rivers, Wheary, Basnight & Kelly, P.C. ("Wolcott"), a Virginia professional corporation, for lack of personal jurisdiction. We decide two questions of first impression. First, we hold that venue and personal jurisdiction are independent...

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