95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7276, 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12,439 Elizabeth Ballard v. Michael E. Savage, and Royal Trust Bank (Austria)

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• explaining that unless a defendant’s burden of litigating in the forum “is so great as to constitute a deprivation of due process, it will not overcome clear justifications for the exercise of jurisdiction”
• declining to consider certain of the defendant’s contacts with the forum state for specific jurisdiction purposes because plaintiffs case against the defendant did not concern those contacts
• finding purposeful availment where defendant had limited physical contact with forum but maintained ongoing obligations to residents and occasionally solicited new business from them
• explaining states have an interest in protecting their citizens from the fraudulent activity of out-of-state actors
• “[T]he ‘purposeful availment’ requirement is satisfied if the defendant has taken deliberate action within the forum state . . . .”
• “To avoid jurisdiction, [the defendant] must ‘present a compelling case that the presence of some other considerations would render jurisdiction unreasonable.’ ”

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