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ILLINOIS v. HEMI GROUP LLC

No. 09-1407.

622 F.3d 754 (2010)

State of ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HEMI GROUP LLC, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 14, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah L. Ahlstrand , Attorney, Brett E. Legner , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Brett E. Legner , Attorney (argued), Office of the Attorney General Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Randolph H. Barnhouse , Attorney (argued), Luebben Johnson & Barnhouse LLP, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before BAUER, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

The state of Illinois sued Hemi Group LLC for selling cigarettes to Illinois residents in violation of state laws and for failing to report those sales in violation of federal law. The district court denied Hemi's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding that the Internet transactions sufficed to establish personal jurisdiction over Hemi in Illinois. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Hemi, based out of New Mexico...

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