Nicholstone Book Bindery, Inc. v. Chelsea House Publishers

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the trial court committed harmless error in treating the defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction as one for summary judgment
• finding jurisdiction in the case of a contract for “custom-made bindings and casings”
• “Tennessee clearly has an interest in protecting its residents against a breach of contract by nonresidents . . . .”
• “[W]hen the contract is with a resident of Tennessee, the State's interest in resolving a suit based on the contract and brought by that resident cannot be doubted.”
• “[S]ummary judgment procedure does not properly -6- apply to jurisdictional issues.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).