Clark v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declining to exercise general jurisdiction over a foreign corporation that transferred products to its subsidiary, which distributed them throughout the United States
• declining to exercise general jurisdiction over a foreign corporation that transferred products to its subsidiary, which distributed them throughout the United States
• finding no alter ego jurisdiction where one officer of the parent also sat on the Board of Directors of the subsidiary
• “A subsidiary is an ‘alter ego’ of its parent corporation if domination and control by the parent renders the subsidiary its mere instrumentality.”
• “The mere ownership of a subsidiary, even one hundred percent ownership, is not sufficient to assert that a subsidiary is the alter ego or agent of its parent corporation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).