Shrinking Grounds for General Jurisdiction After 'Daimler'

August 26, 2014  |  New York Law Journal

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Daimler v. Bauman, coupled with its 2011 decision in Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations v. Brown, call into question whether certain long-held assumptions about the reach of CPLR 301—New York’s general jurisdiction statute—are consistent with due process. Daimler’s impact is already evident in decisions from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. We discuss below several of those recent decisions, which raise important questions about the scope of general jurisdiction in New York.

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