Fastpath, Inc. v. Arbela Technologies Corp., No. 13-2585 (8th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseFastpath, an Iowa corporation, filed suit against Arbela, a California services and software corporation, for breach of a mutual confidentiality agreement. The court concluded that the district court correctly determined that it did not have personal jurisdiction over Arbela where the nature, quality, and quantity of Arbela's contacts with Iowa were not sufficient to demonstrate purposeful availment of the forum state. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's dismissal based on lack of personal jurisdiction.
Court Description: Civil case - Civil Procedure. The district court did not err in dismissing this action for lack of personal jurisdiction as plaintiff failed to show defendant had sufficient contacts with Iowa to confer personal jurisdiction.
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