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Pa. Court: Website Not Enough for Personal Jurisdiction
posted by turmis
on Thursday April 18, @09:37PM
from the The-old-nature-and-quality-argument dept.
A Pennsylvania Superior Court declined to exercise general personal jurisdiction over a website that allows users, for a fee, to register their thoroughbred horses. After finding the website to fall in the middle "interactive" category of the Zippo Test, the court determined that the nature and the quality of the contacts in this case were not sufficiently interactive or commercial to warrant jurisdiction. The court stated that it did not find a website of this type to be sufficient, standing alone, for general personal jurisdiction.
I find it extremely interesting that there were no arguments about specific personal jurisdiction made in this case. The case arose out of the registration by the plaintiffs with the site, clearly a contact with the forum. The court mentions that this isn't and issue for appeal and moves on. I wonder if someone dropped the ball.
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