The California Supreme Court held today, in a four-to-three decision, that California does not have personal jurisdiction over a Texan defending intentional tort claims regarding his posting of reverse-engineered DVD encryption codes on a passive website. He had no connection to California, but did admit knowing that the information he posted could harm DVD copyright owners, the majority of whom he knew to be operating in California. The decision, Pavlovich v. Superior Court, says that's not enough to drag him into court in California, though it does note that "[o]ur decision today does not foreclose [plaintiff from suing Pavlovich] . . . . Pavlovich may still face the music�just not in California." (The link above is to an Adobe Acrobat version of the opinion. For plain text, try here instead.)