SCHWARZENEGGER v. FRED MARTIN MOTOR CO.

No. 02-56937.

374 F.3d 797 (2004)

Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FRED MARTIN MOTOR COMPANY, an Ohio corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and Fred Martin Superstore, a business entity, form unknown; Zimmerman & Partners Advertising, Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin D. Singer and Charles J. Harder, Lavely & Singer, Los Angeles, CA; James C. Martin and Denise M. Howell (argued) and Benjamin G. Shatz, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellant.

Roy G. Weatherup (argued), Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, J. Alan Warfield and Maureen Haight Gee, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; and Larry J. Brock, Pollard, Archer, Cranert, Googooian & Stevens, Pasadena, CA, for the appellee.

Before: KLEINFELD, WARDLAW, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, an internationally-known movie star and, currently, the Governor of California, appeals the district court's dismissal of his suit against Fred Martin Motor Company ("Fred Martin"), an Ohio car dealership, for lack of personal jurisdiction. Fred Martin had run a series of five fullpage color advertisements in the Akron Beacon Journal, a locally-circulated Ohio...

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