Lang Van, Inc. v. Vng Corporation

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LANG VAN, INC., a California No. 19-56452 corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 8:14-cv-00100- v. AG-JDE

VNG CORPORATION, a Vietnamese corporation, OPINION Respondent.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Andrew J. Guilford, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed July 21, 2022

Before: Jay S. Bybee and Mark J. Bennett, Circuit Judges, and Joseph F. Bataillon, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Bataillon

* The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Personal Jurisdiction/Rule 4(k)(2)

The panel reversed the district court’s dismissal, for lack of personal jurisdiction, of a copyright infringement suit and remanded for further proceedings.

In a prior appeal, this court vacated a prior dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction and remanded with instructions that plaintiff Lang Van, Inc.,…