ORECK CORP. v. U.S. FLOOR SYSTEMS, INC.

No. 85-3297.

803 F.2d 166 (1986)

ORECK CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. U.S. FLOOR SYSTEMS, INC., Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 10, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry L. Coats, Raleigh, N.C., Keaty & Keaty, Thomas S. Keaty, David M. Kelly, New Orleans, La., for U.S. Floor Systems, Inc.

Paul T. Meiklejohn, Hopgood, Calimafda, Kalil, Blaustein & Judlowe, Michael W. Ferrell, New York City, Liskow & Lewis, George W. Pugh, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Oreck Corp.

Before GARWOOD and HILL, Circuit Judges, and WILL, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 10, 1986.

WILL, Senior District Judge:

In this action for trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051, et seq., a jury found for the plaintiff Oreck Corporation ("Oreck") and against the defendant U.S. Floor Systems, Inc. ("U.S. Floor"). On appeal and cross-appeal the parties raise numerous issues, only two of which we must decide: (1) whether U.S. Floor had sufficient contacts...

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