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 making a prima facie showing that the website is anything more than such a passive informational site. Cf. PurcoPurCo [sic] Fleet Servs., Inc. v. Towers, 38 F. Supp. 2d 1320, 1324 (D. Utah 1999) (noting that “plaintiff has shown that [defendant] used its web site to solicit business from a Utah resident”).

We therefore affirm the district court’s conclusion that Soma has failed to make a prima facie case that SCB is engaged in the kind of “substantial and continuous local activity” necessary to subject SCB to general personal jurisdiction.


 * II. Specific Jurisdiction

“[T]he evaluation of specific jurisdiction in Utah mandates a three-part inquiry: ‘(1) the defendant’s acts or contacts must implicate Utah under the Utah long-arm statute; (2) a “nexus” must exist between the plaintiff’s claims and the defendant’s acts or contacts; and (3) application of the Utah long-arm statute must satisfy the requirements of federal due process.’” National Petroleum Mkt’g, Inc. v. Phoenix Fuel Co., 902 F. Supp. 1459, 1465 (D. Utah 1995) (quoting Harnischfeger Eng’rs, Inc., 883 F. Supp. at 612-13); see also Far West Capital, Inc., 46 F. 3d at 1074.

Utah’s long-arm statute provides in pertinent part as follows: