That's the story from Sony, anyway. Here's what Sony claims in related to the case Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC v. Hotz et al, (my emphasis).

Though the evidence establishing personal jurisdiction is already overwhelming, SCEA has little doubt that there is much more. However, over the last several weeks Hotz has engaged in a campaign to thwart jurisdictional discovery at every turn--regardless of whether the Court has ordered such discovery or not.

Most seriously, after Magistrate Judge Spero ordered an inspection of Hotz's devices and ordered Hotz to appear at a deposition in California, SCEA learned that Hotz had deliberately removed integral components of his impounded hard drives prior to delivering them to a third party neutral and that Hotz is now in South America, an excuse for why he will not immediately provide the components of his hard drives as requested by the neutral.

Hotz's attempts to dodge this Court's authority raise very serious questions.

Sony to Hotz's PayPal account, and earlier to view the IP addresses of anyone who accessed Hotz's site from January 2009 forward.