Jun 21, 2010
2nd Circuit Seeks Guidance on Use of Long-Arm Law for Copyrights
The 2nd Circuit has certified to New York’s highest court the question of whether a copyright infringement action can be brought in New York against an out-of-state party that uploaded to the Internet unauthorized copies of books and made them available to readers from servers located outside the state. The circuit said that “determining the situs of injury” for purposes of the long-arm statute “in a copyright case requires analysis of state law and policy considerations this court is ill-suited to make.”