Fact Pattern 2-1 Yoshi, a Japanese Citizen Working in Atlanta for His Tokyo

question 194

Multiple Choice

Fact Pattern 2-1
Yoshi, a Japanese citizen working in Atlanta for his Tokyo firm, decided to rent an airplane and fly himself to the Annual Catfish and Zydeco festival in Thibodaux, Louisiana. He rented a small plane to fly there. Over Alabama, thunderstorms formed. Because Yoshi was not trained to fly by instruments, he decided to land at the next airport.
As he searched for a runway, Yoshi heard a loud clank followed by silence as the engine died. He tried to land in a field but crashed. While recovering in a rehabilitation center in California, Yoshi filed suit there against the Atlanta Airport and the owners of the airplane, alleging that they were negligent in their maintenance.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 2-1. For a California court to have jurisdiction to hear this case it must have jurisdiction over the:

• A) subject matter of the case
• B) the law relating to the matter
• C) person or property of the airplane owner
• D) all of the specific choices are correct
• E) none of the other choices are correct

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