Daimler AG v. Bauman

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a corporation is \a distinct legal entity” that \can act only through its agents” (internal quotation omitted)
• holding that foreign corporations may not be subject to general jurisdiction “whenever they have an in-state subsidiary or affiliate”
• holding that the place of incorporation and principal place of business are the primary loci where the exercise of general jurisdiction is proper
• holding that a corporation is subject to general personal jurisdiction in its \place of incorporation and principal place of business\
• holding that the defendant's several physical locations in California did not subject it to general jurisdiction in California
• holding that the defendant’s several physical locations in California did not subject it to general jurisdiction in California

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).