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The fact and precedents in Yahoo Inc. case and its judgment is referenced so as to bring into a skeptical idea of process that courts adopt while deciding matters relating to jurisdictional issues in cyber law. Yahoo is one of the world’s largest global online networks for wide range services. It has reached out for more than 21 million local users in United States and 90 millions globally. The baseless fight of nations on their cultural differences, and the effort to claiming their laws on each other in an effort to protect those differences rather than seeking means to preserve them without conflict, is an old and regrettably venerated tradition. the issue between the two plaintiff and Yahoo serves as a poor explanation of …show more content…

to advise against French citizens from accessing the site and to take all necessary dealings to make it unfeasible to access the Nazi relic auction and any other web site or service that may comprise an apology for Nazism or a contesting of Nazi crimes. 02 In addition, the French court ordered Yahoo! to pay a penalty of 10,000 Francs to LICRA . Following the French decisions, Yahoo! filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking a declaratory judgment that the French court's orders were neither recognizable nor enforceable under the laws of the United …show more content…

Zippo manufacturing’s basis of claims was Dot Com ‘s use of the world “Zippo” I in the domain names in numerous locations in its websites and in the title of the internet newsgroup message that were posted by the Zippo dot com subscribers . Dot Com moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. Zippo manufacturing filed a complaint in opposition to Dot com for trademark dilution, false designation, and under the Federal Trademark Act and state law trademark . The Court established a three-prong test for determining whether a court has jurisdiction over a website. Under the test, the probability that personal jurisdiction can be constitutionally exercised is directly balanced to the nature and quality of the marketable or commercial activity that an entity conducts over the internet. Under Zippo, there is a “continuum’ for sliding scales for measuring websites, which fall in to three general

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