Hickman's administrators v. Hanley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that foreign defendants did not purposefully avail themselves of Massachusetts where tour operator independently sought out Massachusetts travel agents
• holding that the relaxed application of the relatedness test applies when a foreign defendant directly targets Massachusetts residents in an ongoing effort to further a business relationship
• holding that the relaxed application of the relatedness test applies when a foreign defendant directly targets Massachusetts residents in an ongoing effort to further a business relationship
• concluding that plaintiffs stated valid Chapter 93A claim based on regulatory violation because “[a] violation of any provision of [940 C.M.R. § 15.00] is an unfair or deceptive practice”
• declining to apply Nowak’s modified proximate cause standard, noting absence of evidence that defendant-operators of foreign hot air balloon ride targeted Massachusetts residents through use of travel agents
• declining to impute contacts to a foreign defendant from a domestic one, which served as a travel agent and sold tickets on behalf of the foreign defendant on the basis that there was not a sufficiently close relationship for imputation to be consistent with Due Process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).