California Court of Appeal

Order granting nonresident defendants' motions to quash service of summons is affirmed because the California long-arm statute does not reach the three nonresident automobile manufacturer defendants and a nonresident trade association defendant before the court of appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2005
• Published 12/23/2005

Judges

• REARDON, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel Mason & Gette, Craig C. Corbitt, Judith A. Zahid, Furth Firm, Michael P. Lehmann, Christopher L. Lebsock, San Francisco, for appellants., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Peter Sullivan, Douglas B. Miner, Raminta A. Rudys, Joel Sanders, San Francisco, for Nissan Motor Ltd., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Norman C. Hile, Michael C. Weed, Sacramento, for Honda Motors Co., Ltd., Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Richard Darwin, San Francisco, Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson, Eric H. Queen, Deborah A. Garza, Franklin M. Rubenstein, Los Angeles, for Canadian Automobile Dealers Association., Herzfeld & Rubin, Craig L. Winterman, Jeffrey Chase, Los Angeles, for Volkswagen AG.