Provident Mutual Life Insurance v. Bickerstaff

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• enforcing forum selection clause even though defendant did not conduct business or reside in Pennsylvania and all of his witnesses resided in California
• stating that although usually “the plaintiff must show that the defendant has sufficient minimum contacts with the forum state” to establish personal jurisdiction, “in actions involving forum selection clauses[,] analysis of the contacts with the forum state is inappropriate”
• “Where, however, a forum selection clause exists, its effect on the issue of the appropriateness of venue is essentially identical to its effect on the question of jurisdiction.”
• interpretation of a forum selection clause presents a matter of state law

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