Mellon First United Leasing v. Hansen

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that nonresident defendant was not subject to personal jurisdiction in Illinois because defendant (1) executed the contracts and obtained and used the equipment in California; (2) never came to Illinois; and (3) only had contact with Illinois through correspondence
• nonresident did not transact business or perform a contract in Illinois when it leased a postage meter machine from an Illinois corporation for use in California
• court gave little effect to a “forum selection clause contained in ‘boilerplate’ language”
• “Where a nonresident merely enters into a contract with a resident of the forum state, this fact is not sufficient by itself to subject the nonresident to the in personam jurisdiction of the forum state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).