Frank Sinatra v. National Enquirer, Inc., and Clinic La Prairie, S.A.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Swiss clinic’s tortious conduct was partly intended to avail it of California’s market
• advertising, misappropriation of a name, and knowledge that misappropriation will injure a California resident in California
• soliciting and conducting business in California can show purposeful 5 availment
• defendant maintained an agent in California, advertised heavily there, and considered California a top source of American clients
• “The continuing contacts between the [Swiss] [c]linic’s United States-based agent and California translate into less of a litigation burden than if the Clinic maintained no physical presence or agent within the United States.”
• \The continuing contacts between the [Swiss] [c]linic's United States-based agent and California translate into less of a litigation burden than if the Clinic maintained no physical presence or agent within the United States.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).