WM Symposia won dismissal of the College of William and Mary’s lawsuit accusing the radioactive waste management nonprofit of infringing the school’s “WM” trademarks.
A Virginia federal judge tossed the case, saying in an order filed Thursday that Arizona-based Symposia’s contacts with the state are “too random and attenuated to justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction.”
The facts that at least 50% of Symposia’s sponsors are Virginia-headquartered companies and four members of its board live in Virginia are “merely fortuitous contacts with the forum—not purposeful availment,” Judge Jamar K. Walker wrote.
William and Mary, America’s second-oldest institution of higher education, ...
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