Monkton Ins. Servs., Ltd. v. Ritter, No. 13-50941 (5th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed a third-party complaint against Butterfield, a Cayman bank organized and regulated under Cayman law and located on the Island of Grand Cayman, alleging that Butterfield breached contracts with Geneva by failing to detect forged signatures on withdrawals from Geneva's bank account. On appeal, plaintiff challenged the dismissal of his claims against Butterfield for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court concluded that exercising specific jurisdiction over Butterfield would be improper because Butterfield has not purposefully availed itself of the benefits and protections of Texas law through minimum contacts related to the cause of action. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's grant of Butterfield's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. Further, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiff's motion for jurisdictional discovery.
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