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Ninth Circuit· 4/27/2001

Doe v. Unocal Corp.

Citations

  • 248 F.3d 915
  • 49 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 739
  • 2001 Daily Journal DAR 4129
  • 2001 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3344
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 7691
  • 2001 WL 428060

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that conflicts between the facts contained in the parties' affidavits must be 1 resolved in plaintiffs favor for purposes of deciding whether a prima facie case for personal 2 jurisdiction exists
  • holding that a subsidiary was not an agent because there was “no evidence that in the absence of [the foreign corporation’s] California subsidiaries involved in petrochemical and chemical operations, [the foreign corporation] would conduct and control those operations”
  • endorsing the Gallagher court’s holding that imputing a subsidiary’s jurisdictional contacts to its parent on an agency theory is improper when the parent corporation is merely a holding company
  • adopting Doe v. 27 Unocal Corp., 27 F.Supp.2d 1174, 1180 (C.D. Cal. 1998) as its opinion
  • affirming district court’s refusal to attribute the contacts of subsidiaries to a parent corporation
  • stating 8 that alter ego test is satisfied where the parent dictates every facet of the subsidiary’s business- 9 from broad policy decisions to routine matters of day-to-day operations

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Judges: Brunetti, Kozinski, Nelson, Paez

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