State courts lack personal jurisdiction over defendants on claims brought by plaintiffs who don't reside in the state and whose claims did not arise in the state. Decided June 19, 2017 (argued April 25, 2017). Opinion of the Court: Samuel Alito → go there Dissenting: Sotomayor. Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Personal jurisdiction. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, 582 U.S. 255 (2017), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that California courts lacked personal jurisdiction over the defendant on claims brought by plaintiffs who are not California residents and did not suffer their alleged injury in California. It is part of a group of six cases decided since 2011 that have greatly changed the application of personal jurisdiction. Wiki link