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Personal Jurisdiction - Coggle Diagram
Personal Jurisdiction
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General jurisdiction
If defendant's contacts are sufficiently "continuous and systematic" a state's courts could assert jurisdiction over that defendant in any case, including cases in which the dispute did not arise of out the defendant's contact with the forum state
BNSF Railway Co. v. Terrell: general jurisdiction inquiry does not focus solely on the magnitude of the defendant's in state contacts rather the inquiry calls for an appraisal of a corporation's activities in their entirety; a corporation that operates in many places can scarcely be deemed at home in all of them
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In BNSF Railways, the court said defendant having only less than 5% of its workforce, generating 10% of their income there, and only having 6% of its total railway there did not meet the at-home standard
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Personal jurisdiction refers to a court’s authority to adjudicate the rights and liability of the defendant. Before a court can exercise power over a party, the U.S. Constitution requires that the party has certain minimum contacts with the forum in which the court sits. See: International Shoe v Washington, 326 US 310 (1945). (Cornell Law)
specific jurisdiction: a form of minimum contacts that enables a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a corporate defendant in that state without violating due process because of the extent of the defendants’ activities within that state (Cornell Law)