Bulova Watch Co., Inc. v. K. Hattori & Co., Ltd.

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• explaining that for both agency and mere department tests, “the significance of the New York business to the defendant’s overall activities” must be weighed
• noting that sixty percent of parent's products were sold as exports and the United States was the parent company's largest export market through its New York subsidiaries' sales in the United States
• noting that lack of these factors indicated parent doing business through subsidiary
• noting that sixty percent of parent’s products were sold as exports and the United States was the parent company’s largest export market through its New York subsidiaries’ sales in the United States
• observing that a jurisdictional determination that contacts with the forum are insufficient under the fiduciary shield doctrine does not go to the question of the liability of corporate officers for tortious conduct committed in the forum on behalf of the corporation
• discussing stages in the evolution of multi-national corporations as one factor in determining when a subsidiary is sufficiently independent to find no jurisdiction over a foreign parent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).