Supreme Court of California

A California court's exercising of personal jurisdiction over a defendant, based on a posting on an Internet Web site, was improper because defendant's knowledge that his conduct may harm industries centered in California did not, by itself, establish express aiming.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2002
• Published 11/25/2002

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Ornah Levy;  Huber Samuelson;  HS Law Group;  Hopkins & Carley, Arthur V. Plank, San Jose, and Allonn E. Levy for Petitioner., Richard S. Wiebe, San Francisco, for the Computer & Communications Industry Association and the Student Press Law Center as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Ann Brick and Stephen McG. Bundy for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Jared Ben Bobrow, Christopher J. Cox, Robert G. Sugarman, Jeffrey L. Kessler, Geoffrey D. Berman, and Gregory S. Coleman for Real Party in Interest.