The Alabama-based United States Sports Academy Inc. can’t be sued in Massachusetts based on a former student’s unilateral access to its interactive website and his email communications with it while living in Massachusetts, the First Circuit said Wednesday.
The case “requires us to explore the frontiers of personal jurisdiction in the internet age,” Judge Bruce M. Selya said for the panel, which included retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge William J. Kayatta Jr.
Kuan Chen alleged the university changed the requirements for his doctoral degree and effectively prevented him from completing it, according to the court. ...
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