United States Fourth Circuit

Personal jurisdiction over a Connecticut newspaper and certain staff members was not constitutionally proper in Virginia, based on the posting of articles on the Internet, because defendants did not manifest an intent to aim their website or posted articles at a Virginia audience.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2002
• Decided 12/13/2002
• Published 12/13/2002

Judges

• Before MICHAEL and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and Bobby R. BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Douglass Lystad, Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants.  Robert Stuart Collins, Fleming & Collins, P.C., Norton, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Bruce W. Sanford, Bruce D. Brown, Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;   Wade W. Massie, Penn, Stuart & Eskridge, Abington, Virginia;  Stephanie S. Abrutyn, Tribune Company, New York, New York, for Appellants.  Robert M. O'Neil, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Charlottesville, Virginia;  George Rutherglen, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Amici Curiae.