Franchising Company’s Website Not Sufficiently Interactive To Justify Jurisdiction

Mealey's (April 30, 2018, 11:40 AM EDT) -- ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania federal judge on April 25 granted a franchising company’s motion to dismiss a negligence and premises liability lawsuit, finding that the company’s website is not sufficiently interactive to justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction and that its contacts with the Eastern District of Pennsylvania are insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction (Karen And Robert Arnold v. Irish Bred Pub Concepts Co., No. 17-3643, E.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69896)....