Page "Personal jurisdiction" Paragraph 22

* Personal jurisdiction is the limiting factor.

In World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, the plaintiffs sued, in an Oklahoma state court, an automobile dealership based in New York for damages from an explosion that occurred on June 11, 1977, as the plaintiffs drove the car through Oklahoma.

Had the plaintiffs sued in U. S. federal court sited in Oklahoma, personal jurisdiction against the dealership would have been unavailable, as the dealership did not have minimum contacts with the forum state.

Venue, however, would have been proper under, the general federal venue statute, because Oklahoma was a state in which a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred.

However, the United States Supreme Court found that the defendants ( World-Wide Volkswagen Corp .) did not have the minimum contacts with Oklahoma necessary to create personal jurisdiction there.

Volkswagen was one of the " defendants "; the case cited is WWV Corp ( original defendant ) v. Woodson ( the Oklahoma state judge )