United States Ninth Circuit

The sale of one automobile via the eBay website, without more, does not provide sufficient "minimum contacts" to establish jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in the forum state.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/14/2008
• Decided 08/20/2008
• Published 08/20/2008

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER and PAMELA ANN RYMER, Circuit Judges, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth D. Simoncini, Esq., Simoncini & Associates, San Jose, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Paul Boschetto.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert G. Krohn, Esq., Roethe Krohn Pope LLP, Edgerton, WA, for defendant-appellee Jeffrey D. Hansing., Timothy C. Davis, James Smith and Cameron Fortner, The Davis Law Firm, APC, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees Frank-Boucher Chrysler Dodge-Jeep, Gordie Boucher Ford and Boucher Automotive Group.