On 12/6/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Those servers constitute a "legal presence" in those jurisdictions. The WMF's investment in those servers is at risk in the event of an unfavorable legal finding in one of those jurisdictions or in any jurisdiction from which one of those jurisdictions will grant execution of an adverse judgment. I don't know enough about EU law and the enforceability of foreign judgments within the EU to know whether a UK judgment could be enforced in France in such a situation.
The only possible parallel I have is that summons can be served anywhere in the European Union (except, I think, Denmark, though I can't remember why) and have effect. This might extend to the execution of a verdict, though it might well not.
-- Sam