Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court

California and out-of-state plaintiffs sued Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), a Delaware corporation headquartered in New York, in California state court over injuries allegedly caused by its drug Plavix; Plavix was not designed, developed, or manufactured in California, and the nonresident plaintiffs neither purchased nor took the drug there. BMS moved to quash service on the nonresident plaintiffs for lack of jurisdiction; the California courts found specific jurisdiction proper because the nonresidents' claims were identical to the California residents' claims, and the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari.