The European Court of Justice is expected to recognise the competence of a national jurisdiction in a member state for ruling on illegal sales carried out through the foreign websites of US online sales giant Amazon, according to advocate general Melchior Wathelet.
Wathelet presented this conclusion to the Court on Wednesday 9 November. In this case (C-618/15), the French Court of Appeal asked the Court if the French legal system had the jurisdiction to rule on specific litigation involving...