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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-909 | Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction | The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless … |
| 25A612 | Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. | Texas | 2025-11-24 | Application | internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act | Whether the Texas court may decline jurisdiction over nonresident defendants who committed wrongs by virtual means against a Texas resident in violati… | |
| 24A802 | Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London v. Jean H. Toal, in Her Capacity as Acting Circuit Court Judge, et al. | South Carolina | 2025-02-19 | Presumed Complete | dormant-commerce-clause due-process foreign-corporation minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction receivership | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6556 | Edward Farley v. Ubiratan Marinho, Jr., et al. | New Hampshire | 2025-02-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction | 1- Did the New Hampshire Supreme Court misapprehend the two-part test for federal due process jurisdiction is a way to determine if a state court ca… |
| 24-653 | Zembrka, et al. v. American Girl, LLC | Second Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | e-commerce interactive-website minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence | Whether an e-commerce seller's virtual presence and conduct – operating an interactive website accessible in a forum state – constitutes "minimum cont… |
| 24-17 | Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Judgment Issued | civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction service-of-process statutory-interpretation | Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, "[p]ersonal jurisdiction over a foreign state shall exist as to every claim for relief over which the dist… | |
| 23-1201 | CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Judgment Issued | civil-procedure due-process federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sover… | |
| 23A966 | Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Presumed Complete | arbitral-exception circuit-split due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction | 1. This case raises an important, circuit-splitting issue under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seg. ("FSIA"): Whether the e… | |
| 23A467 | Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Presumed Complete | contract-supervision due-process forum-state-activities minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-504 | Photoplaza, Inc., et al. v. Herbal Brands, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Amici (2) | fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-state minimum-contacts nationwide-sales non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction substantial-connection suit-related-conduct third-party-fulfillment | Whether a seller whose products ship nationwide is subject to personal jurisdiction in every forum into which even one of its products is shipped. |
| 23-5757 | Marigdalia K. Ramirez-Fort v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts forum-state-interests minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction state-interests | 1. What objective factors should courts rely upon in order to determine when personal jurisdiction is proper in cases where claims may lack strict c… |
| 23-24 | Grist Mill Capital, LLC v. Universitas Education, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-07-07 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction reasonableness rule-60-motion specific-jurisdiction void-judgment | "Absent an exceptional circumstance, a corporation is subject to general jurisdiction only in a State where it is incorporated or has its principal pl… | |
| 22-7893 | Liver Gruezo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction law-enforcement-procedures maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona stateless-vessel | 1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA"), 46 U.S.C. § 70501, et. seq., violates Due Process because its enforcement procedures are v… |
| 22-937 | VNG Corporation v. Lang Van, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-27 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process federal-rule internet-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(2) specific-jurisdiction | 1. Whether traditional due process principles apply to the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over defendants based on their universally acces… | |
| 22-802 | Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier | Oklahoma | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to custom… |
| 22-477 | Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent | 1. Should the requirement that a plaintiffs cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign nat… | |
| 22-467 | HANWJH v. NBA Properties, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice interactive-website international-shoe-standard minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction single-sale specific-jurisdiction | Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement is met to establish specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant where the non-resident def… |
| 21-1045 | I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Maryland | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea | Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent… |
| 21-478 | Ee Hoong Liang v. Panircelvan Kaliannan, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction summary-judgment | Personal Jurisdiction and Forum Non Conveniens 1) All the parties are citizens and residents of the Republic of Singapore, where they live, work, and… | |
| 20-1385 | Tarek Obaid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-02 | Denied | 28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation | Does the Due Process Clause, as construed by Shaffer v. Heitner, require application of the "minimum contacts" test to true in rem proceedings?; and … | |
| 20-1097 | Karen C. Han v. Yangrai Cho | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | civil-procedure domicile due-process foreign-citizenship foreign-defendant forum-state general-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction | Whether a defendant who is a citizen of foreign country but is domiciled in a forum state is subject to the forum's exercise of general personal juris… | |
| 20-984 | Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Amici (1) | cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction | Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal jurisdiction in another forum State when it sends a single cease-and-desist letter to… |
| 20-747 | Peter F. Gary, et al. v. JTC Holdings, LLC | Colorado | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | choice-of-law civil-procedure corporate-governance due-process forum-selection long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction tortious-conduct | This case requires the Court to further articulate the extent to which states may exercise personal jurisdiction over nonresidents. Defendants Pinnacl… |
| 20-24 | Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. | Kentucky | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity | I. Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state's sovereign immunity to declarato… |
| 19-1288 | Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation | Arizona | 2020-05-13 | Denied | appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver | Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter to grant jurisdiction for attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review… | |
| 19-528 | John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction | (1) Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are "final" under 28 U.S.C. §1291. (2) Whether personal jurisdiction's minimum contact… |
| 19-369 | Ford Motor Company v. Adam Bandemer | Minnesota | 2019-09-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction | Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl… |
| 19-368 | Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, et al. | Montana | 2019-09-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | burger-king causation civil-procedure due-process forum-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relatedness specific-jurisdiction | Whether the "arise out of or relate to" requirement is met when none of the defendant's forum contacts caused the plaintiff's claims, such that the pl… |
| 18-9263 | Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness | Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-1067 | Ambac Assurance Corporation v. U.S. Bank National Association | Minnesota | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-limits due-process forum-state in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction trust trust-law trustee trustee-presence | Whether a court may exercise in rem jurisdiction over a trust where the trust's primary, tangible assets are located outside of the forum State; the t… |
| 18-311 | Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachussetts | Massachusetts | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | commerce-clause conflict-among-courts court-compulsion due-process general-jurisdiction investigatory-document-request investigatory-request jurisdiction-basis minimum-contacts nonresident-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction third-party-contacts unrelated-subject-matter | Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporation to compel its compliance with an investigatory document request wher… |
| 18-165 | DHL Supply Chain v. DEX Systems, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | calder-effects-test civil-procedure due-process electronic-server foreign-defendant forum-state internet-jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence | After Walden v. Fiore, 571 U.S. 277 (2014), may a United States court exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant where that defendant's o… |