California Judge Finds New Jersey Talc Company’s Contacts Create Jurisdiction

( September 4, 2026, 2:42 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Allegations that a New Jersey company operated a warehouse in California out of which it shipped allegedly asbestos-tainted talc for distribution to at least one cosmetics company whose product the plaintiff used suffice for personal jurisdiction, and the company has not adequately disputed the fairness of imposing jurisdiction, a California judge said in denying a motion to quash....