Determining jurisdiction for companies that operate over the Internet is a very complicated issue. The question of jurisdiction is whether a particular court has the power to hear a lawsuit, impose sanctions and enforce judgments. Companies that operate in cyberspace have an international presence and are not restricted by traditional notions of sovereign territories and boundaries. In theory, if a company has an Internet presence in every country, then every country has ju

You probably can't define it and even scholars disagree on what it means, but we all operate in "cyberspace." At first, cyberspace was limited to communication (think email), then e-commerce, but it has now expanded to a critical component of our everyday lives. We depend on systems that operate autonomously to manage simple tasks such as making reservations, automatic bill pay, and electronic tolls. We rely on these systems to handle complex operations like making trades on