Estate of Thomson Ex Rel. Estate of Rakestraw v. Toyota Motor Corp. Worldwide

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Ohio recognizes general jurisdiction
• upholding dismissal for forum non conveniens where South Africa was alternative forum
• applying Ohio law governing piercing the corporate veil in an alter-ego personal jurisdiction analysis
• upholding dismissal for forum non conveniens where South Africa was alternative forum
• referring to the plaintiff’s burden in this context as “relatively slight”
• reviewing forum non conveniens claims for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).