Howard Barnstone v. Congregation Am Echad

How courts have described this case

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

• holding contract initiated by Maine defendant with Texas resident, which was negotiated in Maine and through the mail and performed in Maine not sufficient “minimum contact” to establish specific jurisdiction in Texas
• noting that “it is the place of performance rather than execution, consummation or delivery which should govern the determination of jurisdiction”
• holding contract initiated by Maine defendant with Texas resident, which was negotiated in Maine and through the mail and performed in Maine not sufficient \minimum contact\ to establish specific jurisdiction in Texas
• noting that “it is the place of performance rather than execution, consummation or delivery which should 9 govern the determination of jurisdiction” and holding that plaintiff's “unilateral partial performance” in Texas was insufficient to establish jurisdiction
• rejecting Texas-based architect’s argument that remotely providing from Texas services for construction of synagogue in Maine established defendant’s necessary contact with Texas

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Siskind v. Villa Foundation for Education, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 256×
• Jones v. Petty-Ray Geophysical, Geosource, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-02-28· cited 202×
• Scullin Steel Company v. National Railway Utilization Corp.
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-04-29· cited 191×
• Mountaire Feeds, Inc. v. Agro Impex, S. A., a Panamanian Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-05-06· cited 142×
• Mississippi Interstate Express, Inc. v. Transpo, Inc., Azcal, Inc. And Robert Zoller
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-08-05· cited 117×
• Matias Aviles v. Donald Kunkle, D/b/a, Kunkle Farms, and Richard Kunkle
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-11-27· cited 82×
• TeleVentures, Inc. v. International Game Technology
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-03-30· cited 78×
• Iowa Electric Light and Power Company v. Atlas Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-08-22· cited 67×
• Simmons v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-10-17· cited 66×
• Blair Communications, Inc. v. Ses Survey Equipment Services, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-07-11· cited 64×
• Nogle & Black Aviation, Inc. v. Faveretto Ex Rel. Migliori
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-07-30· cited 51×
• GRM v. Equine Investment & Management Group
  S.D. Texas· 1984-10-23· cited 25×
• Bradford v. Nagle
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-09-30· cited 13×
• Martin & Martin v. Jones
  S.D. Mississippi· 1985-07-24· cited 9×
• Sydow v. Acheson & Co.
  S.D. Texas· 2000-01-26· cited 8×
• Morris v. BC OLYMPIAKOS, SFP
  S.D. Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 8×
• Reed-Joseph Co. v. DeCoster
  N.D. Mississippi· 1978-06-30· cited 6×
• Hartford Casualty Insurance v. JR Marketing, LLC
  E.D. Virginia· 2007-09-26· cited 5×
• Western Desert, Inc. v. Chase Resources Corp.
  N.D. Texas· 1978-10-23· cited 3×
• Williams v. Castro
  S.D. Texas· 1998-10-08· cited 2×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hanson v. Denckla
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 7,025×
• O'Brien v. Lanpar Company
  Texas Supreme Court· 1966-02-02· cited 208×
• Atwood Hatcheries v. Heisdorf & Nelson Farms
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-04-05· cited 49×
• Sun-X International Company v. Witt
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1967-03-07· cited 41×
• Arthur, Ross & Peters v. Housing, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-02-21· cited 16×