Goodyear Dunlop Tires Oper. v. Brown
564 U.S. 915 (2011) Cited 5,609 times 88 Legal AnalysesHolding "the sales of petitioners' tires sporadically made in North Carolina through intermediaries" insufficient to support general jurisdiction
Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk
486 U.S. 694 (1988) Cited 897 times 10 Legal AnalysesHolding that a state law permitting a foreign corporation to be served domestically through its U.S. subsidiary did not implicate the Hague Service Convention
Vons Companies, Inc. v. Seabest Foods, Inc.
14 Cal.4th 434 (Cal. 1996) Cited 871 times 6 Legal AnalysesAdopting a “substantial nexus or connection” approach in applying the California long-arm statute and, in rejecting other approaches, questioning the wisdom “of importing a causation test from tort law to measure a matter that is fundamentally one of relationship and fairness rather than causation”
Pavlovich v. Superior Court
29 Cal.4th 262 (Cal. 2002) Cited 219 timesRejecting the personal jurisdiction of California courts in a trade secret infringement case over a Texan who posted the offending computer code on a website
Stafford v. Mach
64 Cal.App.4th 1174 (Cal. Ct. App. 1998) Cited 114 timesUpholding service of process where "a process server . . . made six attempts at personal service at Mach's residence," and "[o]n the sixth attempt . . . the server 'announced drop service' and left the papers with him" while mailing the summons and complaint to the same address two days later
David B. v. Superior Court
21 Cal.App.4th 1010 (Cal. Ct. App. 1994) Cited 84 timesConstruing former Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26, subd. (h)
Bd. of Trs. of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Ham
216 Cal.App.4th 330 (Cal. Ct. App. 2013) Cited 32 timesStating "the burden is on the plaintiff to show that the summons and complaint cannot with reasonable diligence be personally delivered to the individual defendant . . . two or three attempts to personally serve a defendant at a proper place ordinarily qualifies as reasonable diligence."
Lebel v. Mai
210 Cal.App.4th 1154 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012) Cited 20 timesNoting plaintiff tenant failed to exercise reasonable diligence in ascertaining a foreign landlord's address for purposes of the Hague Convention when plaintiff knew landlord lived in London, England and when defendant had provided plaintiff both his email address and telephone number where he could be reached in connection with the tenancy
Bonita Packing Co. v. O'Sullivan
165 F.R.D. 610 (C.D. Cal. 1995) Cited 38 timesHolding that "two or three attempts at personal service at a proper place should fully satisfy the requirement of reasonable diligence and allow substituted service to be made"
Section 8 - Proceedings commenced and rights accrued before effective date
Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 8 Cited 122 timesStating that a pleading shall contain a "short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief"