Morton v. Environmental Land Systems, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• solicitation of a contract constitutes the transaction of business within the meaning of the statute
• Illinois long arm jurisdiction exercised even though contract was accepted outside of Illinois
• “[A]ctivities such as the solicitation of a contract is the transaction of business within the statutory definition even where the actual acceptance of the contract occurred outside of the forum and where it was to be governed by non-forum law ....”
• \[A]ctivities such as the solicitation of a contract is the transaction of business within the statutory definition even where the actual acceptance of the contract occurred outside of the forum and where it was to be governed by non-forum law . . . .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).