Adding to the growing body of case law on Internet jurisdiction, a federal judge in Philadelphia has held that a Web site operator cannot be sued in Pennsylvania for publishing allegedly defamatory news articles solely because the articles contained references to the Pennsylvania activities of a Pennsylvania resident. (See English Sports Betting Inc. and Atiyeh v. Tostigan, et al.)
In so ruling, Judge Jay C. Waldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania emphasized the Web site operator’s lack of contacts with the forum and specifically rejected plaintiffs’ efforts to predicate jurisdiction on the so-called “effects test” based on the contentions that the articles caused harm in Pennsylvania and that, in publishing them, the Web site operator purposely targeted a Pennsylvania resident.
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