Droukas v. Divers Training Academy, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that, in interpreting Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 223A, § 3(b), courts look “to the place where the services or things are to be supplied”
• declining to exercise personal jurisdiction where “there is no evidence that the defendant specifically contracted to deliver or supply [goods] in the Commonwealth”
• noting that carrier was not acting as defendant’s agent
• single advertisement and isolated sale to Massachusetts resident “void of any purposeful intent on the part of the defendant to avail itself of the privilege of conducting activities” within Massachusetts
• referring to Illinois and New York cases in support of its holding
• isolated transaction where defendant’s only business within Commonwealth was the single sale and shipment of two engines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).