December 18, 2017

A fax class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri brought under Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) against various marketing entities and their respective individual owners was recently dismissed. In a ruling based on personal jurisdiction, the Court decided that it violated the marketers’ due process rights to force them to defend the fax class action in Missouri without having sufficient contacts with the State.
What were the alleged violations asserted in the fax class action lawsuit?