Columbia Briargate Company, a Limited Partnership v. First National Bank in Dallas Vaughn Pearson and A.S. Kyzer, Jr.

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• holding a Texas resident subject to jurisdiction where he committed a tort in the forum state
• explaining that specific jurisdiction may exist over an employee—even if the employee is acting on behalf of his or her employer—if the plaintiff alleges that the employee was personally involved in the alleged tort committed in the forum state
• rejecting the “fiduciary shield doctrine” and clarifying that “the controlling issue is simply whether the non-resident defendant, whatever role he may have occupied [at the company], had such ‘minimum contacts’”
• rejecting the “fiduciary shield doctrine” and clarifying that “the controlling issue is simply whether the non-resident defendant, whatever role he may have occupied [at the company], had such ‘minimum contacts’”
• rejecting the “fiduciary shield doctrine” and clarifying that “the controlling issue is simply whether the non-resident defendant, whatever role he may have occupied [at the company], had such ‘minimum contacts’”
• rejecting the “fiduciary shield doctrine” and clarifying that “the controlling issue is simply whether the non-resident defendant, whatever role he may have occupied [at the company], had such ‘minimum contacts’”

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