Chromalloy American Corp. v. Elyria Foundry Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the foreign actor transacted business by “travelling] to Missouri intending to contact a Missouri corporation and propose the purchase of one of its assets”
• recognizing exception to the “general rule” where the “dismissal has the practical effect of terminating the litigation in the form cast”
• recognizing exception to the “general rule” where the “dismissal has the practical effect of terminating the litigation in the form cast”
• holding two trips to Missouri are “sufficient minimum contacts” for personal jurisdiction where the purpose of the trips was to initiate and further the purchase of a foundry from a Missouri corporation
• re-offering the same rejected claims to support plaintiffs claim that business was transacted in Missouri as support for a new contention that a contract was formed in Missouri in regard to personal jurisdiction would be an exercise in futility
• two trips to Missouri to negotiate and later review contract — although contract was formed in Ohio — constituted transaction of business and triggered Missouri’s long-arm statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).