So I ordered my replacement bottle jack from J&S today and apparently, it's failure was not related me at all. J&S said they have been dealing with many issues like mine and have switched to a different bottle jack. The regular bottle jack costs about $41 plus shipping but if you have the air/hydraulic version, that bottle jack is $130. They don't manufacture their own so that sucks...
If you have a J&S jack, you may want to contact them and give them your serial # to see if yours may be a potentially affected unit. You won't notice the problem raising the bike, bringing it down is where I had my issues....