Labels Defend Jurisdiction Over Russian Stream-Ripping Site Owner To High Court

Mealey's (December 10, 2020, 1:32 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Russian man who operates two stream-ripping websites was well aware of his many users in Virginia and, therefore, purposefully availed himself of jurisdiction in the state, a group of record labels tell the U.S. Supreme Court in a Dec. 8 brief opposing his petition for certiorari, calling a jurisdictional ruling against him in a copyright infringement suit “unremarkable” and not worthy of high court review (Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings Inc., et al., No. 20-503, U.S. Sup.)....