Diamond Crystal Brands, Inc. v. Food Movers International Inc.

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• stating that whether the defendant initiated the contractual relationship is one of the “plus” factors considered to determine if there are minimum contacts
• stating that whether the defendant initiated the contractual relationship is one of the “plus” factors considered to determine if there are minimum contacts
• explaining that the Georgia long-arm statute is not coextensive with the Due Process Clause
• finding that jurisdiction comports with traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice where foreign defendant did not attempt to explain why litigating in the forum state would be too onerous
• recognizing the holding in Innovative Clinical that the Georgia long-arm statute “imposes independent obligations that a plaintiff must establish for the exercise of personal jurisdiction that are distinct from the demands of procedural due process”
• explaining that a state has a “manifest interest in providing an effective means of redress” when a non-resident breaches a contract with a forum resident by failing to make payments required to made in the forum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).