Court of Justice 29 March 2011, C-509/09 and C-161/10 (eDate Advertising GmbH and Others v X and Société MGN LIMITED.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. The present joined cases, which have been referred by the Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice) and the tribunal de grande instance de Paris (Paris Regional Court), raise above all a number of questions on the interpretation of Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and