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McGee v. International Life Insurance

Jim Greiner

Daimler was about general personal jurisdiction. Most of the remainder of our cases will be about specific personal jurisdiction.  The first is McGee.

The McGee opinion is short, and the case was 9-0 in favor of the plaintiff's assertion of personal jurisdiction.  In other words, the Supreme Court thought this was an easy fact pattern to decide after International Shoe.  In isolation, it might seem so.  The harder question might be what distinguishes McGee from the next case you will read, Hanson v. Denckla, in which a 5-4 majority went the other way.

Supreme Court of the United States
355 U.S. 220, 2 L. Ed. 2d 223, 78 S. Ct. 199, 1957 U.S. LEXIS 2, SCDB 1957-023
No. 50
1957-12-16

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