Lyle Richards International, Ltd. v. Ashworth, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “incidental contacts” were “insufficient to support an assertion of personal jurisdiction”
• rejecting jurisdiction where agreement was to be performed outside Massachusetts and plaintiff had initiated transaction
• stating that the accident took place in Burrillville, Rhode Island
• backdated termination letter does not state a claim under ch. 93A, at most a breach of contract claim asserted
• “purely incidental” as opposed to “deliberate” contacts with the Commonwealth insufficient basis upon which to exercise jurisdiction
• no personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendant where Massachusetts plaintiff initially solicited defendant’s involvement in the transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).