Negrón-Torres v. Verizon Communications, Inc.

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• noting that when personal jurisdiction is challenged, “it is plaintiff’s burden to demonstrate the existence of every fact required to satisfy both the forum’s long-arm statute and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.”
• plaintiff bears “burden to demonstrate the existence of every fact required to satisfy both the forum’s long-arm statute and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution”
• “The mere fact that a subsidiary company 12 does business within a state does not confer jurisdiction over its nonresident parent, even if the 13 parent is sole owner of the subsidiary.”
• “The prima facie showing of personal jurisdiction must be based on evidence of specific facts set forth in the record. In other words, the plaintiff must go beyond the pleadings and make affirmative proof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).