Delaval v. Boumatic Robotics, District Court The Hague (Rechtbank Den Haag), 07 December 2012

The PI judge in the District Court of The Hague held that under certain circumstances, provisional cross-border jurisdiction can be derived from art. 31 Regulation (EC) 44/2001, which would require a "real connecting link" between the sought measures and the jurisdiction of a contracting state (ECJ C-391/95, Van Uden/Decoline). However, in the present case there are insufficient connecting points for such cross border preliminary injunction, since it's initiated exclusively against parties without residence in the Netherlands.

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