Snipped showing geocoding w/ jquery and the Esri geocode service

geocode.js

geocodeAddress: function (data) {
  console.log('Geocoder called with ' + data);
  //although there is a dijit that can do this search
  //it's just a simple ajax call, so we will just use jquery
  var url = 'http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/find';
  this.layout.showSpinner();
  $.ajax(url, {
      data: {
          text: data,
          f: 'json',
          outSR:102100,
          maxlocations:6
      },
      dataType: 'json',
      success: this.geocodeResultsHandler ,
      error: this.geocodeError,
      complete: this.geocodeComplete
  })
}