Court Opinion

ID: 9429524
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:27:00.573804+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:20.052963
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*782Justice Brennan,
concurring in the judgment.
I agree with the Court that “[rjespondent’s regular circulation of magazines in the forum State is sufficient to support an assertion of jurisdiction in a libel action based on the contents of the magazine.” Ante, at 773-774. These contacts between the respondent and the forum State are sufficiently important and sufficiently related to the underlying cause of action to foreclose any concern that the constitutional limits of the Due Process Clause are being violated. This is so, moreover, irrespective of the State’s interest in enforcing its substantive libel laws or its unique statute of limitations. Indeed, as we recently explained in Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee, 456 U. S. 694 (1982), these interests of the State should be relevant only to the extent that they bear upon the liberty interests of the respondent that are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. “The restriction on state sovereign power described in World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. [v. Woodson, 444 U. S. 286, 291-292 (1980)] must be seen as ultimately a function of the individual liberty interest preserved by the Due Process Clause. That Clause is the only source of the personal jurisdiction requirement and the Clause itself makes no mention of federalism concerns.” Id., at 702-703, n. 10.