Burnham v. Superior Court of California, 495 U.S. 604 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case addressing whether a state court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exercise personal jurisdiction over a non-resident of the state who is served with process while temporarily visiting the state. All nine justices unanimously agreed that this basis for personal jurisdiction—known as "transient jurisdiction"—is constitutionally permissible. However, the Court was sharply divided on the reasons for the decision, reflecting two fundamentally different approaches to how due-process issues are to be analyzed, and there was no majority opinion. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the lead opinion, joined in whole or part by three other Justices. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote an opinion also joined by three other Justices. Justices Byron R. White and John Paul Stevens wrote separate opinions.
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