Opinion ID: 195309
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Interest of the Forum. The forum state has a

Text: b. Interest of the Forum. demonstrable interest in exercising jurisdiction over one who causes tortious injury within its borders. See Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc., 465 U.S. 770, 776 (1984). Though we deem it inappropriate to correlate the strength or weakness of appellant's case on the merits with the strength or weakness of 22 the forum state's interest in this regard, we think it is both appropriate and useful to note two special considerations. First, the Commonwealth's interest in the litigation sub judice is arguably lessened by the doubts surrounding whether defendant's act can be said to have been committed in the forum, see supra p. 7. Second, if appellant in fact filed suit primarily to retaliate against Alioto's role in the California litigation rather than to right an independent wrong and as previously mentioned there are some clues in the record that could lead to such a deduction the Commonwealth's interest would be much diminished. Cf., e.g., Asahi, 480 U.S. at 114-15 (minimizing forum state's interest in protecting its citizens from tortious injury because a dispute was primarily about indemnification rather than safety standards). Mindful of these special considerations, we conclude that the forum has a milder than usual interest in the further prosecution of T-NY's suit. c. The Plaintiff's Convenience. Given the sparseness