A plaintiff in the District of New Hampshire recently found itself stuck in an unenviable and inescapable jurisdictional hole. Plaintiff Presby Patent Trust sued Infiltrator Systems, a Connecticut-based manufacturer and distributor of septic systems, in New Hampshire for allegedly infringing Presby’s patent on a method for processing effluent. Presby asserted that Infiltrator’s Advanced Treatment Leachfield (“ATL”) septic system performed the patented method. Infiltrator subsequently moved to dismiss the case, arguing that it lacks sufficient contacts with New Hampshire for the Court to exercise personal jurisdiction over it...