C.W. DOWNER & CO. v. BIORIGINAL FOOD & SCIENCE

No. 14-1327.

771 F.3d 59 (2014)

C.W. DOWNER & COMPANY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. BIORIGINAL FOOD & SCIENCE CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 12, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Torres , with whom Kate S. Swartz and Torres Scammon & Day LLP were on brief, for appellant.

Alan D. Rose, Jr. , with whom R. Victoria Fuller and Rose, Chinitz & Rose were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, STAHL and BARRON, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state's courts to exercise jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant only when doing so "does not offend `traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.'" Int'l Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316, 66 S.Ct. 154, 90 L.Ed. 95 (1945) (quoting Milliken v. Meyer, 311 U.S. 457, 463, 61 S.Ct. 339, 85...

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