Moncrief Oil Int'l Inc. v. OAO Gazprom

In Moncrief Oil Int'l Inc. v. OAO Gazprom, 414 S.W.3d 142, 150 (Tex. 2013), the plaintiff pleaded that the defendants committed torts in Texas by conspiring to misappropriate the plaintiff's alleged trade secrets at meetings held in Texas. 414 S.W.3d at 148-49. The defendants in that case claimed that the meetings involved an unrelated matter and not any misappropriation of trade secrets. Id. at 147. In rejecting that contention, the Court declared: "What the parties thought, said or intended is generally irrelevant to their jurisdictional contacts. Regardless of the defendants' subjective intent, their Texas contacts are sufficient to confer specific jurisdiction over the defendants as to the trade secrets claim." Id.