Connecticut National Bank v. Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that § 3(d) of the long-arm statute, dealing with tortious acts outside the Commonwealth, “is predicated on general jurisdiction.”
• explaining that in order for Massachusetts to have personal jurisdiction over a defendant, the defendant must have minimum contacts with the Commonwealth such that the assertion of jurisdiction would not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice
• § 3[d] “is predicated on general jurisdiction,” i.e., defendant having engaged in continuous and systematic activity in forum, unrelated to suit
• defendant, Delaware corporation with a principal place of business in Georgia, made over thirty shipments of lumber to Massachusetts with an aggregate value of more than $375,000
• defendant transacted business under §3(a) where it made over 30 shipments of product to Massachusetts, a substantial volume of business that was purposeful solicitation of business rather than isolated transaction
• jurisdiction proper where plaintiff was not a party to the transaction causing the suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).