United States Ninth Circuit

In ordering dismissal of this action concerning the Barbie doll, district court improperly determined that it lacked personal jurisdiction over the defendants. The subject matter of this suit is sufficiently related to an action filed by defendant in 1961 to support personal jurisdiction, at least at this stage of the proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2003
• Decided 12/22/2003
• Published 12/22/2003

Judges

• Before Robert BOOCHEVER, TASHIMA, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald L. Olson (argued), Michael R. Doyen, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Andrian Mary Prueta, Michael T. Zeller, Steven Vaughan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph M. Burton (argued), Daniel J. Herling, Duane Morris LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.