Legal Opinion
Spacey v. Burgar
District Court, C.D. California
Decided May 16, 2002No. 01CV3848PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
FEESS, District Judge.
I
INTRODUCTION
The present case presents complex issues involving the right of a celebrity to bring suit in United States District Court for the alleged misappropriation of his name by a foreign internet website operator. However, in this order, the Court does not reach these issues because Defendants raise a novel threshold question regarding the exercise of personal jurisdiction where the Defendants’ “contacts” with the forum have occurred in cyberspace. The Court therefore takes up that issue first.
Kevin Spacey, the well-known…
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