The court determined that it lacked jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant whose website was accessible to New York residents.

The second prong of the test requires that the defendant have "minimum contacts" with the forum state such that he/she could reasonably anticipate being called into court there.

The court analogized to a previous case where advertisements directed toward consumers in New York were insufficient to satisfy the requirement of transacting business.

The opinion also made the policy argument that allowing activity in cyberspace to establish sufficient minimum contacts would be too broad an extension of personal jurisdiction.

[10] Weber v. Jolly Hotels[11] treated the Goldberger decision approvingly and also declined to grant general personal jurisdiction to the plaintiff in that case, as doing so would "violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.