A. David Ostrem, Sr. v. Prideco Secure Loan Fund, Lp

How courts have described this case

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• “permitting imputation of contacts if successor [would be] liable for actions of predecessor under forum law” (citing Williams, 927 F.2d at 1132)
• concluding the defendant “purposefully directed its activities at residents of Iowa”
• warning against a rule that would allow “corporations and other entities . . . to shirk liability by switching names”
• “[C]ourts commonly impute a corporate predecessor’s contacts to its successor in order to exercise personal jurisdiction over the successor.”
• “[W]e hold that this assignee is subject to personal jurisdiction in Iowa based on its own contacts with this forum through the contractual relationships it assumed by the assignment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).