jump to page with data row xyz - after ordering

I need to highlight a certain row in the table, and the page containing this row needs to be displayed after loading the page.
That works, so far - I even managed to call a function on pagination change that highlights that row again if I set the table pagination to 5 or 25 or 50 rows, etc.
Now when a column header is clicked and the order is changed, the same needs to happen - after ordering, the new rowID of the highlighted row is retrieved from Ajax in a session variable, the new page number is computed, and the page needs to jump there. Where do I put this? when I put it in a function that is triggered by the order event, and then jump to the page, I seem to get into a loop (judging from an alert I added here).