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THE DEBATE OVER INTERNET JURISDICTION has focused largely on the continued relevance of territorial borders and on the authority of states to prescribe rules for online conduct. 1 Some academics have argued that the internet creates a space beyond territorial regulation. 2 This view maintains that the internet evades or escapes national regulation. Other scholars have persuasively argued that states retain important regulatory authority through prescriptive and personal jurisdiction. 3 These conflicting views appeared dramatically in the case of Yahoo's auction web site. Yahoo's site allowed the display of Nazi memorabilia around the world. In France, the display violated democratically chosen rules against racial, religious and ethnic hatred and a French court ordered Yahoo to block access to French web users. 4 In the United States, where the servers were located, Yahoo won an injunction barring the …