Good Hope Industries, Inc. v. Ryder Scott Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “G.L.c. 223A, § 3[ ] asserts jurisdiction over the person to the constitutional limit only when some basis for jurisdiction enumerated in the statute has been established.”
• holding that “(a]lthough presented with jurisdictional facts sufficient to survive due process scrutiny, a judge would be required to decline to exercise jurisdiction if the plaintiff was unable to satisfy at least one of the statutory prerequisites” set forth in G.L.c. 223A, §3
• finding transaction of business in light of ongoing, yearlong relationship where defendant communicated regularly with plaintiff by phone and mail
• engaging in enterprise of “substantial dimension and duration” with party known to have business headquarters in Massachusetts
• engaging in enterprise of “substantial dimension and duration” with party known to have business headquarters in Massachusetts
• defining “transacting any business” to include defendants’s regular communications to buyer in Massachusetts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).