L.W.

Filed 1/15/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Placer) ----

L.W., a Minor, etc., et al., C098701

Plaintiffs and Appellants, (Super. Ct. No. S-CV- 0048888) v.

AUDI AG,

Defendant and Respondent.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Placer County, Michael W. Jones, Judge. Reversed with directions.

The Brandi Law Firm, Daniel Dell’Osso and Brian Malloy; Kaufman Law and Casey A. Kaufman for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

King & Spaulding, Paul R. Johnson, Susan V. Vargas and Stephanie A. Le for Defendant and Respondent.

1 This is a products liability suit stemming from a car accident involving an allegedly defective Audi Q7. The trial court determined that defendant Audi AG (Audi), the German company that manufactures Audi vehicles in Germany and uses an American company to import, market, and sell those vehicles to authorized Audi dealerships across the United States, was not subject to personal jurisdiction in California under a “stream- of-commerce” theory. (See Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown (2011) 564 U.S. 915, 926 [explaining…