PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Jurisdiction & Venue
......Personal Jurisdiction
.........Bases
............Representative Services Doctrine
6 Cards On This Topic:

BBA's motion to quash service for lack of personal jurisdiction should have been granted where BBA proved it was merely a holding co. and neither the representative services doctrine nor general agency principles applied.

Exercise of specific jurisdiction not proper where Ps did not show sufficient minimum contacts between out-of-state utility co. and CA and general jurisdiction under representative services doctrine inapplicable.

Ps did not offer evidence of the kind of ••excessive•• control that must be demonstrated to warrant application of the representative services doctrine and impute general jurisdiction from local subsidiaries to parent manufacturers.

Exercise of Cal. jurisdiction over Canadian grandparent corp. was proper under representative services doctrine and reasonable under facts of case.

Pursuant to the "representative services" doctrine, study abroad program CAPA-USA, functioned as CAPA-UK's general agent, thereby supporting general jurisdiction over CAPA-UK.

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.