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Civil Litigation

Oct. 2, 2012

Jurisdiction and the Internet

The doctrine of "minimum contacts" takes on a new dimension when applied to a defendant who does business only over the Internet, never physically setting foot in the forum state.

Douglas K. deVries

Mediator, Judicate West

Email: doug@dkdmediation.com

Doug conducts litigation-related mediations statewide.

Every law student learns that to support personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant in a civil suit, the defendant must have "minimum contacts" with the forum state. (See Int'l Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316 (1945).) As venerable as this doctrine may be, it is being tested by the Internet. Now judges must ask: What minimum contacts conducted in cyberspace by an out-of-state resident or a foreign corporation will support per...

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