Question

28. Roderick’s of Burbank, Inc., is a corporation selling lingerie. Roderick’s is incorporated in the State of Delaware; it has its headquarters in the State of California; it is registered to do business in Nevada, New Jersey, and Indiana. Roderick has repeatedly sent sales representatives into the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It has also, on one occasion, published newspaper advertisements in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In which states will Roderick’s be subject to in personam jurisdiction? Bonus hint: Look at the International Shoe case.

Answer 1

Roderick’s of Burbank, Inc., is a corporation selling lingerie. Roderick’s is incorporated in the State of Delaware; it has its headquarters in the State of California; it is registered to do business in Nevada, New Jersey, and Indiana. Roderick has repeatedly sent sales representatives into the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It has also, on one occasion, published newspaper advertisements in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In which states will Roderick’s be subject to in personam jurisdiction? Bonus hint: Look at the International Shoe case.

All the countries listed in this case are subject to Roderick, Delware, Californien, Nevada and New Jersey, as well as to Indiana, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. since, as its business activities were often carried out outside of its registered states and where the sales were sent, the jurisdiction of the company is that of a certain individual or organization. When a individual or corporation has limited interaction with another state by some way, as in this case Roderick was doing business in non-registered states, then the corporation would be subject to certain states in personam jurisdiction, while already registered states have inpersonam jurisdiction. It can be clarified by Contacts Test-The touch test puts further emphasis on "fairness of the exercise of jurisdiction over the defendant by a specific state court in the light of the defendant's relation with the case." Minimum contacts is a term used in the civil procedure law of the United States to decide whether it is reasonable for a court in one country to claim personal jurisdiction over a defendant from another state.