Mohamed v. Michael

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Maryland court could exert jurisdiction over a Kentucky resident whose agent engaged in \intensive\ negotiations with a temporary resident of Maryland to resolve a contract dispute
• holding that a Maryland court could exert jurisdiction over a Kentucky resident whose agent engaged in “intensive” negotiations with a temporary resident of Maryland to resolve a contract dispute
• determining that an out-of-state defendant “transacted business” in Maryland where he engaged in “extensive” negotiations over a period of approximately six weeks
• noting that when construing the words “transacts any business” under subsection (b)(1) of the long arm statute, the phrase must be “read with a constitutional gloss, requiring some ‘purposeful activity’ by the defendant as a prerequisite to the exercise of jurisdiction”
• “[Plaintiff] contends that the intensive negotiations [were] conducted with [Defendant] in Maryland, during which threats were made to use criminal process . . . .”
• “It is within the context of these constitutional requirements that we have interpreted the meaning of ‘transacts any business’ as used in subsection (b) (1) of the long-arm statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).