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Jurisdiction - Personal jurisdiction, long arm statute, and eBay contacts: Robey v. Hinners (COA 5/29/2009)
Robey v. Hinners 2008-CA-000989 05/29/2009 2009 WL 1491387 Opinion by Senior Judge Buckingham; Judge Acree concurred; Chief Judge Combs dissented by separate opinion...

COA Splits On Personal Jurisdiction Over Corporate Officer, Upholds Jurisdiction Over Parent On Veil-Piercing Allegations
Today the Court of Appeals, in a significant case, issued a split decision on personal jurisdiction over an officer of a foreign corporation, while unanimously agreeing that personal jurisdiction could be exercised over an affiliated corporation on a veil-piercing theory...

Max-Planck Event: Brussels Jurisdiction and Common-Law Jurisdiction
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law organizes on 4 February 2008 (17:00) a guest lecture to be given by Professor Adrian Briggs (University of Oxford, UK)...

Chancery Applies "Walks Like a Duck" Test for Equity Jurisdiction; and Rejects Alleged Insolvency of Defendant as Hook to Invoke Equitable Jurisdiction
Hillsboro Energy, LLC v. Secure Energy, Inc., (Del. Ch., Oct. 3, 2008), read opinion here. The introductory paragraph of the opinion provides the best overview of the case: This case exemplifies the old adage: If it walks like a duck, and quacks like duck, it’s probably a duck...

Court Declines to Compel Production of Documents from Foreign Jurisdiction upon Finding a Lack of Personal Jurisdiction and where Certain Documents are Protected from Production by Israeli Law
Linde v. Arab Bank, PLC, 2009 WL 1456573 (E.D.N.Y. May 22, 2009) In this case, defendant Arab Bank moved to compel production of documents, pursuant to subpoena, by non-parties Israel Discount Bank, Ltd...

Jurisdiction over Foreign Defendants and Jurisdiction over Foreign Land: One Question or Two?
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has released its decision in Precious Metal Capital Corp. v. Smith (available here).  In many ways the decision is unexceptional: it agrees with a quite sensible decision by the judge at first instance...

What is comparative negligence and strict liability in tort law?
A. comparative negligence
B. seller sells to buyer
B. defense of ...

Does web site creator subject to a State's jurisdiction?
Does web site creator subject to a State's jurisdiction?
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