Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated
DueProcess
Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to share with third parties for targeted marketing in a forum from which it derives substantial revenue does not subject that news organization to specific personal jurisdiction in that forum for a webpage on that site that contains an alleged libelous publication
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization’s website that harvests visitor location data to share with third parties for targeted marketing in a forum from which it derives substantial revenue does not subject that news organization to specific personal jurisdiction in that forum for a webpage on that site that contains an alleged libelous publication.