PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Jurisdiction & Venue
......Personal Jurisdiction
.........Bases
............Alter Ego and Agency
6 Cards On This Topic:

Trial court erred in exercising in personam jurisdiction over Swiss Ds based solely on global exchange and management of medical and scientific info relative to drug safety and regulatory compliance.

Activities undertaken for D may be attributed to D for personal jurisdiction purposes if D purposefully directed the activities at forum state, regardless of alter ego or agency.

Parent company's ownership or control of subsidiary corp. does not, without more, subject parent corporation to the jurisdiction of state where subsidiary does business.

Alter ego doctrine to justify jurisdiction over foreign corp. couldn't be invoked w/out evidence of wrongdoing or injustice. In opposing D's motion to quash, P must prove minimum contacts.

Jurisdiction could not be conferred in Cal. over Canadian parent corp. on agency theory where record showed subsidiary was independent corp., doing business in Cal., held for that purpose.

D’s contacts with Cal. in "doing business" as agent of corporation not sufficient to give rise to general jurisdiction over him.