Re: DEC vs AltaVista

On 29/05/97, David Post <postd[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
>
> the difficult issue of whether "any Web activity, by anyone, absent
> commercial use, absent advertising and solicitation of both advertising
> and sales, absent a contract and sales and other contacts with the
> forum state, and absent the potentially foreseeable harm of trademark
> infringement, would be sufficient to permit the assertion of
> jurisdiction over a foreign defendant."

What provisions could _possibly_ exist to exert jurisdiction over a "foreign defendant" hosting a site from a county outside the Berne Convention, WTO etc. (such as Iran, Ethopia, the Cook Islands or San Marino)?

CYa,
JEREMY Jeremy G. Byrne
<jeremy[_at_]midnight.com.au> Received on Mon Jun 02 1997 - 14:09:28 GMT