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PHC-MINDEN, L.P. v. KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP.

No. 05-0823.

235 S.W.3d 163 (2007)

PHC-MINDEN, L.P. d/b/a Minden Medical Center, Petitioner, v. KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Delivered August 31, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Brent Cooper, Diana L. Faust, Devon J. Singh, Cooper & Scully, P.C., Dallas, for petitioner.

C. Michael Moore, David G. Cabrales, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, Dallas, James K. Horstman, Rodney E. VanAusdal, Iwan Cray Huber Horstman & VanAusdal, LLC, Chicago, IL, for respondent.

Mark P. McMahon, Erskine & McMahon, L.L.P., Kenneth Charles Cunningham, Director of Legal Services, Good Shepard Medical Center, Longview, Susan Cassidy Cooley, Schell & Cooley, L.L.P., Timothy D. Ryan, Shell, Mitchel & Cooley, L.L.P., Addison, Mary Olga Lovett, Andrew J. Wupper, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Gracelyn M. Sessions, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Stephen A. Madsen, Ryan D. Adair, Cantey & Hanger, Fort Worth, Mark A. Stinnett, Stinnett Thiebaud & Remington L.L.P., Dallas, for other interested parties.

Roger Townsend, Alexander Dubose Jones & Townsend LLP, C.W. "Rocky" Rhodes, Houston, for amicus curiae.

Chief Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United States Constitution prohibits a court from exercising jurisdiction over a party that lacks minimum contacts with the forum. Personal jurisdiction has been described as either specific — that is, based on contacts arising from the dispute at issue — or general, predicated on a party's "continuous and systematic" contacts with the forum. Minimum-contacts analysis is easily muddled,...

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