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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. and HONEYWELL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC., Plaintiffs,
V.

C.A. NO. 04-1338 (KAJ)

APPLE COMPUTER, INC., et al., Defendants. AFFIDAVIT OF PETER N. SURD0 IN SUPPORT OF HONEYWELL'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT INNOLUX DISPLAY CORPORATION'S MOTION TO DISMISS FOR LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF H E N P I N
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I, Peter N. Surdo, do hereby declare and state as follows:
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I am one of the attorneys representing the Plaintiffs in this matter.

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submitting this Affidavit in Support of Honeywell's Opposition to Defendant Innolux Display Corporation's Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction. I believe the documents attached to this Affidavit are true and correct copies of what they purport to be. 2. Attached as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of a receipt from Amazon.com,

an online retailer, listing products purchased by Honeywell, including one Audiovox D2010 DVD Player which was "tom down" by Honeywell employees and found to contain an LCD module manufactured by h o l u x Display.

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3.

Attached as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of a printout from Circuit City's

website, http://urww.circuitcity.com, shows the availability of the Audiovox DT102DOPKG that DVD player in the Wilmington, Delaware Circuit City store. 4. Attached as Exhibit C is a true and correct copy of a printout from Hoovers

regarding Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., available at http://urww.hoovers.com/hon-hai/-ID-5 863 8--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml?cm~ven=PAID&cm~cat=INK&cmqla=CO 1&cm-ite= hon-hai .
5.

Attached as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a printout from the Delaware

Secretary of State website, available at https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/controller.

6.

Attached as Exhibit E is a true and correct copy of a printout from the EMS News

Archives of a report titled, "Hon Hai to increase investment in Innolux," dated July 13, 2004, available at http://www.emsnow.com/newsarchives/arc~vedetails.cfm?lD=574. 5

7.

Attached as Exhibit F is a true and correct copy of a printout from the Canadian

government's Strategis website, entitled "Rising Capital Spending for Advanced TFT-LCD Panel Production in Taiwan," dated March 7, 2003, available at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic

/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr114707e.html.
8.

Attached as Exhibit G is a true and correct copy of a printout from the EMS News

Archives of a report titled, "Hon Hai to challenge NT$2 Trillion for turnover," dated January 27,
2006, available at http://urww.emsnow.com/newsarchives/archivedetails.cfm?lD=ll678. 9.

Attached as Exhibit H is a true and correct copy of a printout from the Taipei

Times of a report titled, "Innolux expects to turn profitable," dated October 7 , 2005, available at http ://urww aipeitimes. com/News/biz/archives/:! 005/ 1 0/07/2003274815. .t

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10.

Attached as Exhibit I is a true and correct copy of a printout from the Taipei

Times of a report titled, "Innolux Display plans 2006 PO," dated September 22, 2004, available at h t t p : / / m . taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/09/22/2003203902. 11. Attached as Exhibit J is a true and correct copy of a printout from the Financial

Times Global 500 for 2006, available at http://media.ft.com/cms/adb61 f66-flbf- 11da-9481-0000

779e2340,dwp-uuid=c9034b2c-fl75- 1da-940b-0000779e2340.pdf. 1
12. Attached as Exhibit K is a true and correct copy of a printout from the Electronic

Business Magazine titled, "Why is Hon Hai So Shy? One stealthy Taiwanese company is quietly sprinting to the top of the EMS sector," by Dennis Normile, dated April 2004, available at http://
www ,edn.codindex.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA40 740&partner=eb&industryid= 2 1. 5

13.

Attached as Exhibit L is a true and correct copy of a printout from Business Week

Online's 2005 Information Technology 100 report, available at http://m.businessweek.com/ it 1OO/2OO5/company/HONwI.htm. 14. Attached as Exhibit M is a true and correct copy of a Datamonitor Company

Profile for Hon Hai Precision Industry Company Limited. 15. Attached as Exhibit N is a true and correct copy of a MasterLink Securities Equity

Research Report on Hon Hai Precision, available at http://web6.masterlink.com.tw/project/

english/maingage/files/company~reports/23 17%20TT%2020050624.pdf#search=%22hon%20h
ai%201cd%22. 16. Attached as Exhibit 0 is a true and correct copy of a printout from The Inquirer of

a report titled, "Hon Hai's profits almost double on Ipod boost," dated September 1, 2006, available at http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34089.

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17.

Attached as Exhibit P is a true and correct printout from the Foxconn website

home page, available at www.foxconn.com. 18. Attached as Exhibit Q is a true and correct printout from the Foxconn website

global network page, available at http://www.foxconn.com/about/global.asp. 19. Attached as Exhibit R is a true and correct printout from the Foxconn website

contact us network page, available at http://www.foxconn.com/other/contactus.asp. 20. Attached as Exhibit S is are true and correct printouts from the Foxconn website

iPaq store page, available at http://www.services.foxconn.com/. 21. Attached as Exhibit T is a true and correct printout of an e-mail from the Foxconn

iPAQ store e-mail address. 22. Attached as Exhibit U is a true and correct copy of a printout from the EMS News

Archives of a report titled, "Hon Hai breaks ground on new plant," dated May 22, 2003, available at http://www.emsnow.com/newsarchives/archivedetails.c~?~=1652. 23. Attached as Exhibit V is a true and correct copy of printouts from the Texas

Comptroller of Public Accounts, available at http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/Index.html. 24. Attached as Exhibit W is a true and correct copy of printouts from Circuit City's

website, produced by checking the availability of the following products in the Wilmington, Delaware store: (1) the HP LCD monitor, Model No. VS15; (2) the Acer LCD monitor, Model
No. AL1716BS; and (3) the LG 23'' LCD HDTV monitor, Model No. 23LXlRV.

25.

Attached as Exhibit X is a true and correct copy of a printout from Circuit City's

website, produced by checking the availability of Viewsonic LCD monitors for purchase through the Circuit City website.

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26.

Attached as Exhibit Y is a true and correct copy of printouts from Dell's website,

available at www.dell.com, produced by selecting the Ultrasharp 1907FP LCD monitor and selecting shipment to a zip code for Wilmington, Delaware.

YOUR AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of SeptemM, 2006.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that on September 18, 2006, I caused to be served true and correct copies of the foregoing on the following by hand and by e-mail: John W. Shaw Monte T. Squire YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR LLP 1000 West Street, 17th Floor P.O. Box 391 Wilmington, DE 19899-0391 Attorneys for Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, ST Liquid Crystal Display and Quanta Display Inc. William J. Wade RICHARDS LAYTON & FINGER One Rodney Square P.O. Box 551 Wilmington, DE 19899-0551 Attorneys for Arima Display Corporation, Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., and Matsushita Electrical Corporation of America

Karen L. Pascale YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, LLP The Brandywine Building, 17th floor 1000 West Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Attorneys for Optrex America, Inc.

Philip A. Rovner POTTER ANDERSON & CORROON LLP Hercules Plaza, 6th Floor 1313 N. Market Street P.O. Box 951 Wilmington, DE 19899 Attorneys for Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. and Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc.

Thomas L. Halkowski FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 919 N. Market Street, Suite 1100 P.O. Box 1114 Wilmington, DE 19899-1114 Attorneys for Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

David J. Margules John M. Seaman BOUCHARD MARGULES & FRIEDLANDER, P.A. 222 Delaware Ave., Suite 1400 Wilmington DE 19801 Attorneys for Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and Citizen Displays Co., Ltd.

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Robert J. Katzenstein Robert Karl Beste, III SMITH, KATZENSTEIN & FURLOW LLP 800 Delaware Avenue, 7th Floor P.O. Box 410 Wilmington, DE 19899 Attorneys for Seiko Epson Corporation

William J. Marsden, Jr. Raymond N. Scott, Jr. FISH & RICHARDSON, P.C. 919 North Market Street, Suite 1100 Wilmington DE 19899-1114 Attorneys for International Display Technology and International Display Technology USA, Inc.

Richard L. Horwitz David E. Moore POTTER ANDERSON & CORROON LLP Hercules Plaza, 6th Floor 1313 N. Market Street P.O. Box 951 Wilmington, DE 19899 Attorneys for BOE Hydis Technology Co., Ltd., Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Toppoly Optoelectronics Corp., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Electronics North America Corp., Wintek Corp., Wintek Electro-Optics Corporation, Samsung SDI America, Inc. and Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.

Daniel V. Folt Gary W. Lipkin DUANE MORRIS LLP 1100 North Market Street, 12th Floor Wilmington, DE 19801-1246 Attorneys for InnoLux Display Corporation

I also certify that on September 18, 2006, I caused to be served true and correct copies of the foregoing on the following by e-mail:

Robert C. Scheinfeld BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 Attorneys for Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Richard D. Kelly Andrew M. Ollis OBLON, SPIVAK, McCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, P.C. 1940 Duke Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Attorneys for Optrex America, Inc.

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Elizabeth A. Niemeyer FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P. 901 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 York M. Faulkner FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P. 11955 Freedom Drive Reston, VA 20190 Attorneys for Toppoly Optoelectronics, Wintek Corp. and Wintek Electro-Optics Corporation

Stephen S. Korniczky PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 3579 Valley Centre Drive San Diego, CA 92130 Hamilton Loeb PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 875 15th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 Attorneys for Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. and Samsung SDI America, Inc.

John T. Johnson FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. Citigroup Center - 52nd Floor 153 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022-4611 Attorneys for Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Alan M. Grimaldi HOWREY LLP 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20004-2401 Attorneys for Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., and Philips Electronics North America Corporation

John Flock KENYON & KENYON One Broadway New York, NY 10004-1050 Attorneys for Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, and ST Liquid Crystal Display Corporation

Kevin M. O'Brien BAKER & McKENZIE LLP 815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20006 Attorneys for BOE Hydis Technology Co., Ltd.

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Robert L. Hails, Jr. KENYON & KENYON 1500 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005-1257 Attorneys for Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, and ST Liquid Crystal Display Corporation

David J. Lender Steven J. Rizzi WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 767 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10153 Attorneys for Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. and Matsushita Electrical Corporation of America

Stuart Lubitz HOGAN & HARTSON LLP 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Attorneys for Seiko Epson Corporation, Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and Citizen Displays Co., Ltd.

Peter J. Wied PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER, LLP 515 South Flower Street, 25th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 Attorneys for Quanta Display Inc.

Lawrence Rosenthal Matthew W. Siegal STROOCK & STROOCK & LAVAN LLP 180 Maiden Lane New York, NY 10038-4982 Attorneys for Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. and Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc.

Dan C. Hu TROP PRUNER & HU, P.C. 1616 South Voss Road Suite 750 Houston, TX 77057-2631 Attorneys for Arima Display Corporation

Donald R. McPhail DUANE MORRIS LLP 1667 K Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20006 Attorneys for InnoLux Display Corporation

/s/ Maria Granovsky
Maria Granovsky (#4709)