Supreme Court hears arguments on personal jurisdiction over foreign companies
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in J. McIntyre Machinery v. Nicastro [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on the ability of a state, under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause [Cornell LII backgrounder], to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign company that targets the US market and sells its product in the US. The case involves an accident where machinery manufactured by British company and…