Supreme Court of Texas

In a wrongful-death case brought against a Utah-based river-rafting outfitter, a finding of specific jurisdiction over the matter is reversed and remanded where plaintiff's death on a Grand Canyon hiking trail did not arise from or relate to defendant's instate commercial activities so as to establish specific jurisdiction over it in Texas.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2005
• Decided 03/02/2007
• Published 03/02/2007

Judges

• Justice O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, Justice GREEN, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. Thomas Bishop, Alexander N. Beard and Stephanie Ann Finch, Bishop & Hummert, P.C., Dallas, for Petitioner., Douglas Alexander, Alexander Dubose Jones & Townsend, LLP, Austin, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven E. Aldous, Michael Braden and Robert Ray Varner Jr., Braden, Vamer & Aldous, P.C., Dallas, for Respondent.