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Venue - Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions - Updated April 8, 2002

(Court holds that the availability of an 800 telephone number and "passively informational" website to forum residents, without more, is insufficient to establish that defendant is "transacting business" or otherwise amenable to suit in the forum under 15 U.S.C. §78aa).

(Transmission of allegedly obscene material from California - based computer and modem over the phone lines to Tennessee computer sufficient contact to make Tennessee appropriate venue for California residents' trial, even though transmission originated by Tennessee postal inspector).