Legal Opinion
Spir Star AG v. Kimich
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 12, 2010No. 07-0340PublishedCited by 277 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Jefferson
A foreign manufacturer sold its products in Texas through a Texas distributor. We must decide whether the use of that distributorship insulates the manufacturer from the reach of a Texas court when one of the products injures a Texas citizen. We hold that a manufacturer is subject to specific personal jurisdiction in Texas when it intentionally targets Texas as the marketplace for its products, and that using a distributor-intermediary for that purpose provides no haven from the jurisdiction of a Texas court. Because, in this case, personal jurisdiction comports with traditional notions of…
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