Adams v. Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co.

Citations

• 345 Conn. 312

Syllabus

The plaintiffs, as coadministrators of the estate of their son, R, sought to recover damages from the named defendant, A Co., among other parties, in connection with a fatal airplane crash in New York. A Co., a California corporation with its principal place of business in California, is a dealer and distributor of aircraft parts, including overhauled replacement parts for airplane engines. A Co. does not have any offices, plants, facilities, agents, employees, property, or direct business operations of any kind in Connecticut, and it does not directly advertise its products in Connecti- cut but, rather, advertises in a broad campaign directed at the North American market. Since 2008, A Co. has sold its products to Connecticut consumers, and approximately 0.5 percent of its total revenue from 2012 through 2017 was derived from Connecticut sales, averaging approxi- mately $593,000 per year. Out of the 6050 carburetors it sold between 2008 and 2017, 25 were shipped to Connecticut. In 2012, A Co. sold an overhauled replacement carburetor that it had purchased from K Co., an Alabama corporation, to E Co., a New York company, which installed the carburetor in one of its airplanes. Thereafter, that plane was involved been settled that [the double jeopardy clause] imposes no limitations what- ever upon the power to retry a defendant who has succeeded in getting his first conviction set aside. The principle that this provision does not preclude the [g]overnment's retrying a defendant whose conviction is set aside because of an error in the proceedings leading to conviction is a [well established] part of our constitutional jurisprudence.'' (Citation omitted; emphasis omitted; footnote omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.)), overruled in part on other grounds by Alabama v. Smith, 490 U.S. 794, 109 S. Ct. 2201, 104 L. Ed. 2d 865 (1989). 345 Conn. 312 NOVEMBER, 2022 313 Adams v. Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. in the crash that killed R. The plaintiffs, who, along with R