Abstract. Let M be a real hypersurface with almost contact metric structure (φ, g, ξ, η) in a complex space form Mn(c), c = 0. In this paper we prove that if R ξ L ξ g = 0 holds on M , then M is a Hopf hypersurface in Mn(c), where R ξ and L ξ denote the structure Jacobi operator and the operator of the Lie derivative with respect to the structure vector field ξ respectively. We characterize such Hopf hypersurfaces of Mn(c).