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Personal Jurisdiction After The Supreme Court s Decision In Ford: What Has Changed? - Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration

SUMMARY On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its newest ruling on personal jurisdiction, in the consolidated cases of Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court and Ford Motor Company v. Bandemer. The Court held that Ford could be sued in Montana and Minnesota (respectively) after its cars were involved in accidents in those states. The Court rejected Ford s argument that personal jurisdiction was lacking because the specific cars in question were neither designed, nor manufactured, nor sold within the forum state-meaning there was no direct causal link between Ford s in-state activities and the plaintiffs claims. It was enough, the Court explained, that

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On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court held in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court that Montana and Minnesota courts could exercise jurisdiction over the global auto manufacturer for certain in-state vehicle accidents, even if Ford sold, designed, and manufactured the allegedly defective automobiles outside those forums. 1 The Ford decision sparked immediate questions about the direction of the Court s personal jurisdiction jurisprudence, especially after a decade of decisions restricting the exercise of jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants. Does Ford signal a return to the days of expansive jurisdiction or was it simply a tried-and-true application of existing principles? In other words, how worried

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