Mina Wright v. James Yackley

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing nonresident doctor’s activities from “voluntary, interstate economic activity . . . which is directed at various states in order to benefit from effects sought in those states”
• finding no personal jurisdiction when doctor treated Plaintiff outside the forum state despite being on notice that any harm from such treatment would be felt in the forum state
• “[if the doctor] was guilty of malpractice, it was through acts of diagnosis and prescription performed in [his home state]”
• Idaho court did not have jurisdiction over a South Dakota physician who prescribed medication for a South Dakota resident, who later moved to Idaho, although the physician forwarded the prescription to Idaho
• A [if the doctor] was guilty of malpractice, it was through acts of diagnosis and prescription performed in [his home state] @
• no personal jurisdiction when a physician’s only contact with the forum state was a mailed prescription to a former patient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).