![]() Prior notions of “systematic contacts” and “minimum contacts” would still apply quite readily. This is fine, because in the old days, one might be greeted by a door-to-door salesman, or receive a cold call from an enterprising telemarketer, and the resulting transaction is not unlike the type of situation one might have today by placing an order on Amazon. Nevertheless, there are classes of cases that continue to slip through the cracks in the carefully crafted framework.įor example, most courts have taken what we would now consider “old timey” analyses of jurisdiction based on writing and telephone calls and applied them to online business transactions. The courts in most jurisdictions have managed to find ways to shoehorn traditional notions of personal jurisdiction into the narrow slipper of internet discourse. “We talked about here and there but I think once we got in the groove again, we got excited about doing another record.The Problem of Personal Jurisdiction in Cases of Online DefamationĪs the Information Age reaches the pinnacle of its estate, courts continue to struggle with questions of jurisdiction over disputes arising out of information and commentary posted online, usually on social media. Job For a Cowboy had been doing what Davy refers to as “on and off writing” over a period of three years, but getting together in a more serious capacity to make As I Drink From The Infinite Well Of Inebriation “was the catalyst of everything,” he explains. The flame to pursue Job For a Cowboy again was reignited when Davy, along with Sannicandro and fellow guitarist Al Glassman, put out a record under the Serpent of Gnosis moniker last year. I think a lot of the guys were kinda torn, I think the band was split half and half wanting to tour and the other half needed a break.” Jonny insists the lengthy break was not intended: “I don’t think any of us expected it to take this long, by any means.” “At that point, we were all pretty burnt out, to be honest. After performing 250 shows in one year at the band’s height of activity, some of the members simply grew tired of it and craved stability. Good old-fashioned burnout was also a factor in JFAC’s extended absence. Jonny’s little ones are currently five and two years old, keeping his hands busy when they aren’t on the keyboard. I know a lot of the guys wanted to tour but around that time my wife got pregnant so that just kinda put everything on hold.” After kid number one came kid number two, as so often is the case. That was probably the biggest brunt of it, on my end. Then he drops the bombshell: “I got married, I had a kid, so that puts a lot of things on hold quite a bit. “A couple of guys in the band went back to school,” he continues, “and I went back to college to work on my computer programming degree.” Jonny demurs when we ask what kind of work he does now with that degree in hand, not wanting to mix his “professional” life with his band, other than to say he does “scripting for large scale database management that’s essentially scaled all across the world.” “Tony, the guitar player, is working on his medical degree,” he tell us, a most unexpected turn from the shredder and former MetalSucks columnist. We ask Jonny the obvious: what the hell have you guys been doing all this time? Surprisingly it’s had the opposite effect.” “I think the majority of us assumed that being out of the picture, out of the lime light, not making our presence known, that the ship would sail and people would just forget about us. “Yeah! That part of it is super interesting, we never expected the ‘hype’ considering we’ve been gone for so long,” Davy offers on how much interest a pair of cryptic social posts generated earlier this year. It’s been nearly six years, but frontman Jonny Davy has finally broken the band’s silence in an exclusive chat with MetalSucks, just as rumors begin to swirl of a new record. ![]()
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