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Today is May 25, 2018, the deadline by which companies around the word had to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)! This new legislation is intended to have a significant impact on data protection worldwide and its requirements affect a large number of business owners, officers, and decision–makers. We urge you to read this whole message and seek competent advice regarding the extent to which the GDPR applies to you. 

In the early days of the internet, the answer was probably yes. Many courts adopted the approach first used in 1997 by the court in Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., 952 F.Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa. 1997). In Zippo, the court held that the operation of a “passive” web site that does little more than provide information is not enough to subject the operator to jurisdiction in all 50 dates, but the operation of an “active” web site through which products are sold is enough to subject the operator to jurisdiction in all 50 states. Based on that approach, an e-commerce company based in California could be sued in Florida, even if it had never actually made any sales into Florida.

Jones Waldo participated in this year's Love Utah Give Utah fundraising event on March 31. The firm matched contibutions to Utah Dispute Resolution up to id="mce_marker"000. The goal was acheived resulting in an overall donation of $2000.

Jones Waldo attorney George Sutton recently contributed a feature article to American Banker magazine regarding brokered deposits. George served as the Utah Commissioner of Financial Institutions from 1987 to 1993, where he was responsible for regulating all state chartered depository institutions and all consumer financial services providers in Utah. Since 1993, George has specialized in bank regulation. He assists clients with new bank and other regulatory applications, provides compliance reviews of products and services, and advises boards and management on regulation and corporate governance matters. Read the article in American Banker

Jones Waldo is pleased to announce that Bruce Babcockhas been appointed the Business Department Chair effective February 1.

Saturday, May 16, was the 33rd annual Law Day Run. It was a successful fundraiser for "...and Justice for All."

Jones Waldo recruited more than 40 people for the run. A big thank you to everyone that came and who brought family and friends. Great job by all of our runners! To see the results of the race click here.

Popular Facebook-owned photo sharing app, Instagram, recently changed its Terms of Service, spurring outrage from users, account cancellations from entities like National Geographic (with its 638,000 followers), and now a class action lawsuit.

It’s no surprise Americans have an extraordinary thirst for music. What is a bit surprising (and also disconcerting) is that we download more songs illegally than any other country in the world according to MusicMetric’s recent report on its investigation on file-sharing activities via BitTorrent. The report, called the Digital Music Index (DMI), showed that Americans pirated nearly 760 million songs via BitTorrent between January and June 2012 alone.