19 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 252,544 times   279 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable
  2. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    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' "
  3. Helicopteros Nacionales de Colom. v. Hall

    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
  4. Consulting Eng'rs v. Geometric Ltd.

    561 F.3d 273 (4th Cir. 2009)   Cited 665 times   2 Legal Analyses
    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."
  5. Mylan Labs., Inc. v. Akzo, N.V.

    2 F.3d 56 (4th Cir. 1993)   Cited 918 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding the plaintiff must prove service of process if challenged
  6. ESAB Group, Inc. v. Centricut, Inc.

    126 F.3d 617 (4th Cir. 1997)   Cited 698 times
    Holding that § 1965 abrogates the "minimum contacts" requirement of International Shoe
  7. Grayson v. Anderson

    816 F.3d 262 (4th Cir. 2016)   Cited 252 times
    Holding that Rule 4(k) is available for jurisdiction if the plaintiff "demonstrates that no State can exercise personal jurisdiction over the defendant"
  8. Vitol, S.A. v. Primerose Shipping Co.

    708 F.3d 527 (4th Cir. 2013)   Cited 236 times   1 Legal Analyses
    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)
  9. Saudi v. Northrop Grumman Corp.

    427 F.3d 271 (4th Cir. 2005)   Cited 174 times
    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"
  10. Base Metal Trading, Ltd. v. OJSC “Novokuznetsky Aluminum Factory”

    283 F.3d 208 (4th Cir. 2002)   Cited 182 times
    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
  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 345,715 times   922 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss