HECHT, Justice, delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
The sole question in this case is whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to take personal jurisdiction over a foreign manufacturer merely because it knew its allegedly defective product would be shipped to that state. We answer no, and thus reverse the judgment of the court of appeals,
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