Antonelli v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How later courts describe this case

• holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying discovery where “the pleadings contained no allegations of specific facts that could establish the requisite contacts with the District”
• § 13-423(a)(l) does not confer specific personal jurisdiction where the claims asserted are "unrelated to the acts forming the basis for personal jurisdiction"
• an entity with a clear and substantial interest in the subject of the contract is necessary and indispensable
• the anticompetitive effect of a boycott in the medical profession is too uncertain to be amenable to per se treatment
• D.C. cannot assert personal jurisdiction over non-residents whose sole contact with District “consists of dealing with a federal instrumentality”
• “we must look to the instructions as a whole, in a common sense manner ... inquiring whether the correct message was conveyed to the jury reasonably well”
• jurisdictional discovery properly denied where plaintiff has had ample opportunity to take discovery oPdepose defendant on the question of jurisdiction, and yet requisite contacts with the forum have not been established
• chiropractors sued physicians’ association and physicians for refusal to deal professionally