Personal jurisdiction is the power of a court to render a decision affecting a person’s legal rights. This lawsuit takes place within different states meaning that each state has individual independent jurisdiction over the people within their territory but does not have the rights over any person who is outside their jurisdiction. If, however, a person is within another state for a short period of time it would put that person under the jurisdiction of that government. In this case, Funny Faces is contracted through Novelty Now, Inc. who takes care of the manufacturing and distribution operations and ensures that everything runs smoothly and efficiently for the Funny Faces products. This would make Novelty Now responsible for any of Funny …show more content…
ADR, otherwise known as alternative dispute resolution refers to the resolution of legal disputes through methods other than litigation, such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration, summary jury trials, minitrials, neutral case evaluations, and private trials. Mediation could potentially be a better option rather than litigation in this case, because it has a mutually agreed third party who has the basic knowledge of specific types of cases. It gives each party an equal opportunity along with an unbiased opinion to help work through any and all disputes. An advantage to mediation would be that each party can communicate their feelings and problems to each other, hopefully giving resolution to the problem at hand. This method would potentially help Margolin and Novelty Now, because they are both largely known businesses and it would keep the public opinions on those companies on good terms which would continue to increase on their sales. Mediation is less time consuming, cost effective, and less complex for both parties involved. A disadvantage related to mediation would be that they would seem equal but in the reality, they are not equal at all. A good example of this would be at the end of mediation there could be a settlement agreement where both parties think that are getting an equal reward, but in reality, one party is getting more than the other. A second form of ADR that could be used in this case could be arbitration. Usually this is the main form used in ADR but there is typically a contract agreement between both parties if a dispute were to arise. An advantage is that if the parties do not choose and arbitrator an individual is assigned to them. Arbitration also have very similar qualities like mediation does regarding cost effective and less expensive than other options. Also like mediation, arbitrators normally have a generalized knowledge in the area the two parties are