Buy Globally, Sue Locally: Personal Jurisdiction in Product Liability Cases
In keeping with yesterday's theme regarding foreign parent corporations, I thought today I would refer you to a column I wrote for this week's National Law Journal on the subject of personal jurisdiction in product liability cases. The column, Buy Globally, Sue Locally, describes the New Jersey Supreme Court's recent decision adopting the stream of commerce test as the sole constitutional measure of personal jurisdiction. It also describes other states' approaches, which typically require some sort of purposeful availment of the jurisdiction's benefits in addition to the stream of commerce.
