United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims against defendant-airline for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed, where: 1) Burnham v. Superior Court does not apply to corporations, and so service of process on a corporation's officer within the forum state does not create general personal jurisdiction over the corporation; 2) a court may exercise general personal jurisdiction over a corporation only when its contacts "render it essentially at home" in the state; and 3) under the demanding jurisdictional standard of Daimler AG v. Bauman, the defendant’s contacts were insufficient to subject it to general jurisdiction in California.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2014
• Published 08/21/2014

Judges

• W. FLETCHER

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel