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Civil Procedure—Ninth Circuit Focuses on Importance of Subsidiary Rather Than Control to Impose General Jurisdiction over Foreign Corporation—Bauman v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 644 F.3d 909 (9th Cir. 2011)

The Supreme Court of the United States has established that general personal jurisdiction allows a forum to exercise authority over a defendant to adjudicate claims that do not arise from the defendant’s contacts within the forum state.  Since the advent of the modern...