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2 to plead a “domestic injury” as required by RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community, 579 U. S. 325, 346. Smagin’s Russian residency weighed heavily in the District Court’s decision. The Ninth Circuit reversed. Rejecting the District Court’s rigid, residency-based approach to the domestic-injury inquiry, the Ninth Circuit instead applied a context-specific approach and concluded that Smagin had pleaded a domestic injury because he had alleged that his efforts to execute on a California judgment in California against a California resident were foiled by a pattern of racketeering activity that largely occurred in California and was designed to subvert enforcement of the judgment there.

(b) The parties advance competing approaches to the domestic-injury inquiry. Petitioners urge a bright-line rule that locates a plaintiff’s injury at the plaintiff’s residence. They argue that because a private RICO action remedies only economic injuries and a plaintiff necessarily suffers that injury at its residence where the economic injury is felt, any cognizable §1964(c) injury is necessarily suffered at the plaintiff’s residence. Alternatively, petitioners argue that at least when intangible property is concerned, common-law principles locate