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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Mar. 31, 2009

This Time, It's Personal

The California Court of Appeal has launched a mini onslaught of recent decisions about specific personal jurisdiction and its contrast with general personal jurisdiction.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Daniel Lee Jacobson

In the 2½ weeks beginning on Feb. 23, and ending on March 13, three of the 19 divisions of the California Court of Appeal published opinions about specific personal jurisdiction and its contrast with general personal jurisdiction. The legal reasoning of each case conformed with the legal reasoning of the other two cases, but the differing facts required some different applications of that reasoning. When ...

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