TROMA ENTERTAINMENT v. CENTENNIAL PICTURES INC.

Docket No. 12-1883-cv.

729 F.3d 215 (2013)

TROMA ENTERTAINMENT, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTENNIAL PICTURES INC., Pan Global Entertainment, LLC, Defendants, Lance H. Robbins, King Brett Lauter, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Final Submission: July 25, 2013.

Decided: September 6, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Reiser ( Manuel A. Arroyo , Rachel Schulman, Esq. , on the brief), Shapiro, Croland, Reiser, Apfel & Di Iorio, LLP, Hackensack, NJ, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lance H. Robbins, pro se, North Hollywood, CA.

King Brett Lauter, pro se, Marina Del Rey, CA.

Brian Marc Feldman , John P. Bringewatt , Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, Rochester, NY, pro bono amicus curiae at the request of the Court in support of the Defendants-Appellees.*

Before: JACOBS and SACK, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.


SACK, Circuit Judge:

The subject of this appeal is the reach of New York State's long-arm statute in the context of alleged infringement of intellectual property. At issue is section 302(a)(3)(ii) of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules, and in particular its requirement that the allegedly tortious conduct of the individual over whom personal jurisdiction is asserted under that section "caus[ed] injury to person or property within the state." N.Y. C.P.L.R. &...

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