Question

BUSINESS LAW: 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’s 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.

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Roderick will be subject to all states described in this case delware, California, Nevada, New Jersey, and Indiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and Rhode Island and Massachusetts because In personam jurisdiction referred to jurisdiction over a particular person or entity, such as a company as its business operations were also conducted outside its registered states where it sent sales representatative and published news paper advertisement.

When a person or company has minimum contact with another state by any means like in this case Roderick was doing business in states which are not registered then The company get subjected to in personam jurisdiction to those states while registered states already had inpersonam jurisdiction.

This can be understood by Contacts Test- The contact test places more focus on “fairness of a particular state court’s exercise of jurisdiction over the defendant in the light of the defendant’s connection with the state”. Minimum contacts is a term used in the United States law of civil procedure to determine when it is appropriate for a court in one state to assert personal jurisdiction over a defendant from another state