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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Milazzo grants an unopposed request by an Illinois-based promoter of a dance festival in Amsterdam, dismissing for lack of jurisdiction trademark infringement claims by a music promoter in Louisiana. Although Louisiana residents can interact with the website, there is no evidence that any Louisiana resident “RSVP’d” to the Amsterdam dance event, created an account, or purchased a product. Furthermore, the festival website was advertising an event which occurred in Amsterdam, thousands of miles from Louisiana, and does not target the state of Louisiana, or even the United States, in any way. Additionally, the Fifth Circuit has stated that merely running a website that is accessible in all 50 states, but that does not specifically target the forum state, is not enough to create the “minimum contacts” necessary to establish jurisdiction in the forum state.