Berrett v. Life Ins. Co. of the Southwest

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• finding that forum selection clause which read “parties agree that any action at law or in equity hereunder” did not apply to several business- related tort claims
• declining to assert jurisdiction, discussing McBreen, and treating the fact that the defendant did not initiate the contact as dispositive
• finding tortious injury prong of Utah long-arm statute broad enough to encompass allegedly defamatory telephone calls made into Utah by defendants located outside Utah
• declining to assert jurisdiction, discussing McBreen, and treating the fact that the defendant did not initiate the contact as dispositive
• forum selection clause was inapplicable to torts that did not relate to interpretation of the contract
• defendants made defamatory telephone calls from Texas to forum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).