Com. v. Smith, J.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that due process clause did not prevent California courts from exercising jurisdiction over nonresident husband served with divorce suit while in California on business trip
• holding that jurisdiction over a party found in the state was proper “based on physical presence alone”
• holding that, with respect to natural persons, at least, in-state service of process always creates general personal jurisdiction over the person served
• holding that service of process to a natural-person defendant briefly present in the jurisdiction is sufficient to confer general jurisdiction
• holding that jurisdiction over a party found in the state was proper “based on physical presence alone”
• holding that service of process confers state court jurisdiction over physically present nonresident, regardless of whether he was only briefly in state or whether cause of action is related to his activities there

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).