Peanut Corporation of America, International Marketing Associates, Inc. v. Hollywood Brands, Inc., Consolidated Foods Corporation

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• holding that a defendant’s agreement that a substantial performance of contractual duties take place in the forum state is dispositive on whether defendant purposefully availed itself of that forum
• holding the exchange of telephone calls and letters, one of which became part of the contract sued upon, sufficient for personal jurisdiction
• holding exchange of calls and emails enough when they formed basis of contract
• finding jurisdiction based on “sufficient contracting” in Virginia despite fact that contract sued upon was formally formed elsewhere
• finding personal jurisdiction in Virginia over defendant based, in part, on the “numerous written communiques and telephonic negotiations [plaintiff exchanged] with a party located in Virginia”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).