Maurice Sternberg, Inc. v. James

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• not arising out of where “offers and rejections [were] interposed between” visit to forum state and the agreement ultimately entered into
• “The fact that the Illinois plaintiff’s part of the contract was to be performed in Illinois is not transacting business for jurisdictional purposes.”
• no personal jurisdiction where defendant entered the forum state on two occasions for reasons wholly unrelated to the plaintiff or the dispute
• phone calls insufficient regardless of who phones first

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).