( October 24, 2025, 2:26 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 23 reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction a computer services company’s suit against a software company for its purported failure to comply with bid requirements for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) government in providing Microsoft software, finding that the software company was subject to personal jurisdiction because it “purposely availed itself of the privilege of doing business” in the CNMI....