550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 266,461 times 365 Legal Analyses
Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "
466 U.S. 408 (1984) Cited 9,267 times 26 Legal Analyses
Holding that “purchases, even if occurring at regular intervals” were insufficient to establish general personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporation
Holding that personal jurisdiction exists where the party "made in-person contact with the resident of the forum in the forum state regarding the business relationship" and where "the performance of contractual duties was to occur within the forum."
Holding that Rule 4(k) is available for jurisdiction if the plaintiff "demonstrates that no State can exercise personal jurisdiction over the defendant"
Affirming Rule 12(b) dismissal, concluding that "[b]ecause the well-pleaded facts do not permit [this] [C]ourt to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct, the complaint has alleged — but it has not shown — that the pleader is entitled to relief" (internal quotation marks omitted; final two sets of brackets in original)
Holding that exclusion of evidence was an appropriate sanction for a party's failure to timely provide expert witness disclosures and admonishing that "[l]itigants who fail to comply with court scheduling and discovery orders should not expect courts of appeal to save them from the consequences of their own delinquence"
Holding that plaintiff's unsubstantiated statements of extensive business contacts in the United States are insufficient when they offer no concrete evidence of what those business transactions are