P0913 A US subsidiary that designed and manufactured a product for a Canadian parent company that worked closely with it in doing so provided services the parent otherwise would have had to perform for itself, justifying the conclusions that the subsidiary was the parent's agent under the "representative services" doctrine and that the Canadian parent company thereby had sufficient minimum contacts to give California courts in personam jurisdiction over it.CitationDOREL v SUPERIOR COURT (Canadian Car Seat) 134 CA4 1267 [See: CCP 410.10, 418.10; Von's v Seabest 14 C4 434, T/AT 1/97; Sonora Diamond v Superior Court 83 CA4 523; Chan v Society 39 F3 1398]
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