California Court of Appeal

In this defamation action, plaintiffs sued defendant, an Illinois resident, for defamation and other intentional torts based on an allegedly defamatory posting made by defendant on his personal Facebook page while he was in Illinois. Petition for writ of mandate or prohibition challenging the respondent court's denial of defendant's motion to quash service of summons for lack of personal jurisdiction is granted, where: 1) plaintiffs did not meet their burden of presenting facts demonstrating that defendant's conduct constituted minimum contacts sufficient to create personal jurisdiction under the standards set forth by the US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; and 2) rather than direct the respondent court to grant the motion to quash, that court will be given the opportunity to rule on plaintiffs' request to conduct jurisdictional discovery.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2015
• Published 01/14/2015

Judges

• Fybel

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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