O.J. Simpson has moved to dismiss Fred Goldman's suit to seize his publicity rights, according to this story on the KNBC site. Simpson was "exonerated" (by the DPIC's definition) of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but a civil jury with the benefit of Simpson's own testimony found by clear and convincing evidence that he actually did it. The LA Superior Court's online document site says it is temporarily unavailable. Perhaps a crush of requests for these papers crashed the server. From the news story, it appears that Simpson is arguing that he now lacks the requisite "minimum contacts" with California under the International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945) line of cases. (California's "long-arm" statute, Code of Civil Procedure § 410.10, extends the Superior Court's jurisdiction to the I. Shoe limit.)

If that is really his argument, it seems far-fetched. He killed two people in California and owes a whopping judgment for their wrongful death, on which he has never paid a nickel. That alone would seem to be far more than needed to meet the requirement "that the defendant's conduct and connection with the forum State are such that he should reasonably anticipate being haled into court there." World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, 444 U.S. 286, 297 (1980).