CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Jurisdiction-In Personam
.........Jurisdiction Found
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Jurisdiction based on physical presence alone constitutes due process.

Cal. properly exercised personal jurisdiction over Va. resident who had strong ties with Cal. which he attempted to sever immediately after separation.

Where a nonresident D purposefully sends tortious communications into a forum and thereby injures its residents, D can be sued in that state.

The requirements for specific jurisdiction are met when a D travels to a state and, while there, injures the plaintiff.

Where online posts by out-of-state D are directed at a CA resident and intended to have an effect here, CA can exercise personal jurisdiction.

Filing a substantive opposition to a motion is a general appearance.

A defendant acting elsewhere who causes effects in California of a nature that are "'exceptional'" and subject to "'special regulation'" may be subject to California jurisdiction.

For purposes of negligent supervision and imputed negligence, Cal. has jurisdiction over out-of-state parents of misbehaving U.C. student based on acquiescence in and financial support of his decision to go to U.C.

Exercise of jurisdiction over H, who had been in Saudi Arabia since 1974, appropriate.

Cal. may exercise jurisdiction in Marvin-type action where cause of action arose in state prior to defendant's becoming domiciled in another state.

Nonresident ballplayer's contacts with Cal. sufficient to permit exercise of personal jurisdiction.

N.M. resident had contacts with Cal. such as to make it reasonable to exercise personal jurisdiction for support purposes.

H's act of abandoning family in N.M., thereby forcing them to return to Cal., caused effect in state sufficient to permit exercise of personal jurisdiction over H.