Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

stream-of-commerce theory

1 The principle that a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant if the defendant places a product in the general marketplace and the product causes injury or damage in the forum state, as long as the defendant also takes other acts to establish some connection with the forum state, as by advertising there or by hirin,, ,orneone to serve ;es a sales aPent then,. Asulit Metal Indus. Co., Ltd. u. Superior Court of California, 480 U.S. 102, 107 S.Ct. 1026 (1987!. 2. The principle that a person who participate in placing a defective product in the general marketplace is strictly liable for harm caused by the product. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 402A (1979