Mid-State Distributors, Inc. v. Century Importers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an order is a final judgment that may immediately be appealed when there is no further act to be done by the court prior to a determination of the rights of the parties
• teaching that an order is interlocutory “[i]f there is some further act which must be done by the court prior to a determination of the rights of the parties ... or [i]f a judg ment determines the applicable law while leaving open questions of fact”
• explaining an order denying a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction \is interlocutory and not directly appealable\
• explaining an order is interlocutory if some further act must be done by the court prior to the determination of the rights of the parties
• stating an order is interlocutory if some further act must be done by the court prior to the determination of the rights of the parties
• there is no “other evidence” requirement for personal jurisdiction where the complaint itself demonstrates jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).