Lak, Inc. v. Deer Creek Enterprises

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that the long-arm statute may not be coextensive with due process in tort cases
• commenting that if the contract at the center of the dispute had borne a more substantial relationship to the forum, it would not have been necessary for the activities giving rise to the breach to actually have occurred in the forum
• finding no personal jurisdiction over a defendant even though some letters were sent to plaintiff in forum state and contract was signed by plaintiff in forum state because such actions were merely a convenience to the plaintiff
• Michigan long-arm statute held not to confer jurisdiction over out-of-state defendant who had dealt with Michigan plaintiff only over telephone and through letters
• Michigan long-arm statute held not to confer jurisdiction over out-of-state defendant who had dealt with Michigan plaintiff only over telephone and through letters
• “each criterion represents an independent requirement, and failure to meet any one of the three means that personal jurisdiction may not be invoked.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).