Opinion ID: 148585
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Heading: Penguin's Arguments Regarding the Situs of Injury

Text: On appeal, Penguin contends that the district court relied on the wrong line of cases both as a matter of law and as a matter of policy. As a legal matter, Penguin argues that those cases are inconsistent with the reasoning of DiStefano v. Carozzi, Inc., 286 F.3d 81 (2d Cir.2001) (per curiam), in which we concluded that the termination of employment of an employee at a meeting in New Jersey caused the employee injury in New York State, because New York was where the employee lived and where he performed the duties of his employment. From a policy perspective, Penguin argues that [t]he restrictive reading of the long-arm statute under the line of cases followed by the District Court would substantially  and unnecessarily  stack the deck against the authors, publishers and other intellectual proprietors in New York in the accelerating struggle against Internet piracy, allowing pirates with the entire 21st-century arsenal of digital infringement tools to shelter behind a 19th-century personal jurisdiction model based on their physical location. Appellant's Br. at 14.