Podcast Episode 169: Listen and Learn — Personal Jurisdiction (Civ Pro)

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today’s “Listen and Learn” episode, we look at the various ways of establishing whether a court has jurisdiction over the parties in a lawsuit.

In this episode we discuss:

• Establishing personal jurisdiction through traditional bases
• The difference between “domicile” and “presence”
• Long-arm statutes and ties to the forum state
• The two parts of the constitutional analysis
• General jurisdiction and specific jurisdiction
• Analyzing two hypos from previous California bar exams
• Structuring an answer to a personal jurisdiction question

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Resources:

• “Listen and Learn” series
• The Brainy Bar Bank: Streamlining Bar Study
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2004
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2016
• International Shoe Co. v. Washington
• Podcast Episode 33: Tackling an MEE Civil Procedure Question
• Podcast Episode 72: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Civil Procedure
• Podcast Episode 92: Listen and Learn – Subject Matter Jurisdiction
• Podcast Episode 111: Listen and Learn – Introduction to Supplemental Jurisdiction (Civ Pro)

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