Mealey's (February 4, 2020, 1:35 PM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Jan. 31 ruled that industrial refrigeration contractors have sufficiently shown that several defendants in a theft and misappropriation of trade secrets lawsuit engaged in actions to support a finding of specific jurisdiction in the action and not require the action to be transferred to another federal district court (Degree Mechanical Inc., et al. v. J.C. Welding LLC, et al., No. 19-5133, N.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16394)....