\Automatic\ Sprinkler Corp. of America v. Seneca Foods Corp.

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• purchase of single item from Massachusetts company, accompanied by partial payment, held insufficient to confer long-arm jurisdiction where it had little impact on Massachusetts commerce
• no personal jurisdiction over New York defendant that signed purchase order to buy goods from Massachusetts seller, mailed purchase order to Massachusetts, received invoice from Massachusetts, and sent check to Massachusetts
• The mailing of a purchase order and check in partial payment to Massachusetts found insufficient to support personal jurisdiction
• “We see the function of the long arm statute as an assertion over the person to the limits allowed by the Constitution of the United States.”
• non-resident defendant’s correspondence and partial payments to Massachusetts division of plaintiff company in action to recover unpaid balance on purchase insufficient to confer jurisdiction
• nonresident defendant that signs purchase order, receives letters from Massachusetts plaintiff, and mailed payments to such plaintiff did not transact business in Massachusetts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).