Opinion ID: 195309
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Pertinent Policy Arguments.

Text: policy that seems to counsel against exercising jurisdiction is the widely shared interest in preserving citizens' willingness to talk openly with the press. Forcing an individual to fly cross-country on the strength of one answered telephone call from a journalist likely would tend to dry up sources of information and thereby impede the press in the due performance of its proper function. Nonetheless, the Court has shied away from allowing First Amendments concerns to enter into the jurisdictional analysis. See Keeton, 465 U.S. at 780 n.12; Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 790 (1984). Although it might be argued convincingly that the jurisdictional calculus ought to produce somewhat different results in defamation actions filed against reporters' sources than in actions filed against the journalists responsible for republication of a source's remark, as in Calder, or against the media corporation itself, as in Keeton, these precedents give us pause. Consequently, we place no weight on First Amendment values for purposes of this appeal. 4. Tallying the Results. We begin the final phase of