Gordon v. Greenview Hospital, Inc.

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• holding that the defendant hospital’s contacts with Tennessee, “taken alone or together,” did not justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction
• holding that a defendant may challenge personal jurisdiction by filing a Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 12.02(2) motion to dismiss
• holding that the defendant hospital’s contacts with Tennessee, “taken alone or together,” did not justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction
• noting that statutes define the outer limits of “the ability of Tennessee’s courts to exercise jurisdiction over nonresident defendants”
• applying a “two-part test which requires evaluating whether the requisite minimum contacts are present and whether the exercise of jurisdiction is fair”
• noting that, in a motion to dismiss for personal jurisdiction, “[a] trial court must take as true all the allegations in the plaintiff’s complaint and supporting papers, if any, and must resolve all factual disputes in the plaintiff’s favor”

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