( August 6, 2025, 12:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, and Informa told a US judge that plaintiffs bringing federal antitrust claims over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy on peer review services fail to establish personal jurisdiction as the foreign defendants were not engaged in the publishing business in the US. Further, the plaintiffs point to T&F and Wolters' brief membership in a trade association in 2013 as evidence they participated in an anticompetitive conspiracy, but sworn declarations by the defendants establish they "were not engaged in the publishing business in 2013 or since, and thus cannot plausibly be alleged to have joined a conspiracy starting in 2013," the reply in support of dismissal filed to the Eastern District of New York said. Asserting personal jurisdiction over foreign defendants that have no connection to New York violates the due process, the filing said.See attached document: ...
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