Document Type

Article

Publication Title

UC Davis Law Review

Abstract

A fiftieth birthday is a good time for taking stock. By most criteria, the, decision in International Shoe v. Washington has stood up well. After all, it is extensively cited, and one is hard-pressed to find a jurisdictional decision by any court in the United States in which it is not mentioned. Unlike several other jurisdictional chestnuts, it endures. For all the moaning about the woeful state of jurisdiction jurisprudence, the blame is not usually directed to the International Shoe case itself. It is odd that this should be the case in that International Shoe gave us the modem constitutional due process standard for the exercise of adjudicatory jurisdiction: that a defendant "have certain minimum contacts with [the forum] such -that the maintenance of the suit does not offend 'traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice."

First Page

755

Volume

28

Publication Date

1995

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