Curtis Publishing Company, a Corporation v. Louis Cassel

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• recognizing that when a wholly owned subsidiary’s activities as an agent of its parent company “are of such a character as to amount to doing business of the parent,” the parent is subject to jurisdiction in the state where the activities occurred
• finding that subsidiary was agent of parent for jurisdictional purposes where the subsidiary had exclusive rights to distribute the parent’s magazines worldwide; because circulation of its publications was the “source of life” to parent, subsidiary was conducting parent’s business
• reliance on Cannon to find “presence” through agent, but recognition that alternative under International Shoe satisfied if minimum contacts of agent are sufficient
• communication of the allegedly libelous material to persons in Kansas meant the tort arose in Kansas, even though the statements were first published elsewhere, id. at 138-39
• communication of the allegedly libelous material to persons in Kansas meant the tort arose in Kansas, even though the statements were first published elsewhere, id. at 138-39
• “[A] wholly owned subsidiary may be an agent[,] and when its activities as an agent are of such a character as to amount to doing business of the parent, the parent is subjected to the in personam jurisdiction of the state in which the activities occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).