Gordon v. Tow

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defendant’s activities did not amount to “transaction of any business” where plaintiff initiated the transaction outside Illinois, the agreement was entered into outside Illinois and the contract was to be performed outside Illinois
• “ ‘the place where the last act necessary to give validity to the contract is done is the place where the contract is made.’ ”
• plaintiff initiated; formation in Illinois; performance outside Illinois; no choice of law provision; no jurisdiction
• only acts of the defendant should be considered in determining whether business was transacted in Illinois
• “In assessing a nonresident’s contacts with this State, ‘[o]nly the acts of defendant can be considered in determining whether business was transacted in Illinois’ ”
• unsolicited purchase of share of Rhode Island limited partnership in which negotiations were by mail and telephone calls to buyer in Illinois did not constitute transaction of business in Illinois

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).