Understanding how jurisdiction may be conferred predicated upon “electronic” events is critical to a litigator, and this article serves to update two prior articles that addressed this issue.1
Recent decisions examine what connections to New York need to exist in digital piracy cases under the Federal Copyright Laws in order to sustain jurisdiction in this state. In more traditional commercial disputes involving websites, courts review the “substance,” “quality” and “extent” of “electronic” New York connections to a site in order to determine whether “long-arm” jurisdiction should be extended to New York state, often relying on non-electronic connections to the state to find jurisdiction.
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