Boris Fuksman, a Ukrainian entrepreneur, won an important German Supreme Court decision in his libel suit against The New York Times over a 2001 article depicting him as a fraudster. His jurisdictional claim was that he has business interests in Germany and that the Times web site is accessible there. Originally German courts declined to consider the suit, but the Supreme Court decided that German courts have jurisdiction over the case, pointing out that the web site has 15,000 registered German users.
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