Case Study: Johnson V. Gawker Media

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Charles C. Johnson sued the Gawker media due to defamatory statements made in several articles presented online. The allegation of defamation were in basis of false Twitter postings done by third party persons, posing as the plaintiff, harassing other individuals. The erroneous use of statements made by Johnson in regard to a Republican Primary race held in Mississippi, and about the former mayor of Newark, NJ. The misleading paraphrasing of Johnson commenting on the killing of Michael Brown Jr. Furthermore, the claims of a blogger to have known Johnson from college alleging that Johnson defecated in public. As well as stating that Johnson partook in a bestiality act with a sheep. The facts of the case are as following. The Gawker Media is a Delaware corporation whose primary business is New York, and the defendants are residents of New York. Gawker media has no business of any sort partaking in Missouri at all. Plaintiff Johnson is a journalist, owner, and presidents of Got News LLC, a corporation located in California. Johnson is also a resident of California. Johnson has no business of any sort partaking in Missouri at all. …show more content…

He is alleging the committing of tort within the state.Hereby, the defendant must have sufficient minimum contact with the named state. The plaintiff argues that the Gawker media has business transactions with Missouri businesses by specific direction of advertisements. However, the advertisements were placed by Google through a third party advertising program that's directed on a large scale and not specifically directed to Missouri residents. As a result, since the defendants did not physically direct the advertisement to Missouri residents; there is not enough evidence to exercise long-arm

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