Strasner

M. Strasner sued out-of-state defendants Brightpoint, Inc. (Brightpoint), Brightpoint North America, LP (BPNA), Touchstone Wireless Repair and Logistics, LP (Touchstone), and Touchstone Acquisition, LLC (TAL) (collectively, Defendants), for injuries she suffered when a Touchstone employee allegedly uploaded a private photograph of Strasner to her Facebook page from a mobile telephone she had returned to T-Mobile. The court granted Defendants’ motion to quash service of the summons and amended complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction. Strasner appeals, contending she made a sufficient showing of Defendants’ contacts with California, both directly and through their California parent corporation, to subject them to personal jurisdiction. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Strasner entered into a wireless services contract with T-Mobile in 2010, in Santa Monica. Strasner’s account was associated with a Los Angeles telephone number. In 2012, while living in New York, Strasner terminated her contract with T-Mobile and returned her mobile telephone to a T-Mobile store in New York. An employee at the store claimed to have erased all of Strasner’s personal…