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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC., :
Plaintiff,
v. Civ. No. 07-633-LPS
BCD SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, and
SHANGHAI SIM-BCD SEMICONDUCTOR :
MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., :
Defendants.
ORDER
At Wilmington this Ei.y of March, 2008, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that
supplemental briefing will take place on Defendantsf pending motion to dismiss for lack of
personal jurisdiction (D.I. 10). Parties shall address the following issues in their briefs:
l. The applicability, if any, of the theory of dual jurisdiction under §§ 3l04(c)(1) and
(c)(4) ofthe Delaware long-arm statute e first raised in LaNu0va D&B, S. p.A v.
Bowe C0., 513 A.2d 764, 768 n.3 (Del. Supr., 1986) and later employed in Boone
v. Oy Patrick, 724 A.2d 1150, 1157-58 (Del. Super. Ct., 1997) and Wright v.
American Home Products Corp., 768 A.2d 518, 527-28 (Del. Super. Ct., 2000)-
to the instant case;
2. Specific instances, supported in the record, of "act[s} ofthe defendant
purposefully directed toward the forum State," as required by Justice O’Connor’s

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test for satisfying federal due process in the Supreme Court’s split decision in
AsohiMerol1ndus. Co. v. Superior Court, 480 U.S. 102, 112 (1987);
3. The specific jurisdictional discovery that Plaintiff requests be authorized, in the
alternative to denying the motion.
Supplemental briefs shall be no longer than ten (10) pages. Plaintiff s brief shall be
submitted no later than Friday, March 21, 2008. Defendant’s brief shall be submitted no later
than Friday, March 28, 2008.
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Leonard P. Stark
United States Magistrate Judge

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