The Townsend

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• where trial court rules on jurisdictional issue based on affidavits and discovery materials without holding evidentiary hearing, plaintiff need only make prima facie showing
• in determining whether there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant, “conflicts between the facts contained in the parties’ affidavits must be resolved in . . . [plaintiff ’s] favor”
• if conflicted facts are contained in the parties' affidavits, the facts must be resolved in favor of the plaintiff for purposes of determining whether a prima facie case of personal jurisdiction has been established.
• “[L]iability is not to be conflated with amenability to suit in a particular forum.”
• if conflicted facts are contained in the parties’ affidavits, the facts 20 must be resolved in favor of the plaintiff for purposes of determining whether a prima 21 facie case of personal jurisdiction has been established
• if conflicted facts are contained in 14 the parties’ affidavits, the facts must be resolved in favor of the plaintiff for purposes of 15 determining whether a prima facie case of personal jurisdiction has been established

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