Antitrust Hockey League Suit Tossed As Lacking Jurisdiction Via Internet Sales

( December 3, 2024, 2:49 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge dismissed claims against the Canadian Hockey League and related organizations (CHL defendants) for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in a suit against the CHL defendants and National Hockey League for their purported collaboration to prevent recruiting of players outside of certain zones, finding, in part, that personal jurisdiction cannot be established by selling “internet-based merchandise to New York customers” because the plaintiffs failed to show “that the CHL Defendants caused injury in New York to the named Plaintiffs.”...