Tony Sidaway said:
and the UK case Godfrey versus Hallam, for instance, demonstrates that a private US citizen who publishes using the internet can be sued in the British courts.
Sorry, I got my cases all muxed ip. It's Godfrey versus Dolenga. Dolenga was a Cornell U. postgrad who was also a citizen of British Columbia. Godfrey said disgustingly anti-Canadian statements on soc.culture.canada, Dolenga responded by saying something defamatory about Godfrey. Godfrey obtained a default judgement against Dolenga in a UK court. He also sued Cornell University for "falsely and maliciously published or [causing] to be published" defamatory statements. Cornell had refused to stop letting Dolenga post, citing the First Amendment. They ended up setting with the persistent Godfrey.