( May 18, 2026, 11:39 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held that a federal judge cannot exercise personal jurisdiction over claims brought by out-of-state, opt-in plaintiffs in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action in reversing and remanding a ruling conditionally certifying the collective action and allowing notice to those plaintiffs in a suit brought by a group of Vermont distributors of a wholesale snack cake company challenging their alleged misclassification as independent contractors....