People v. Gordineer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “if the corporation is [the defendant’s] alter ego, its contacts are [the defendant’s] and due process is satisfied”
• noting that under Iowa law, corporate form will be ignored when used as an instrument of fraud
• finding that the chief executive officer of a corporation was subject to in personam jurisdiction based on the corporation’s activities in the forum state when the evidence indicated that the corporation was merely the alter ego of the chief executive officer
• affirming determination and trial court's order that parent was alter ego of subsidiary and subject to personal jurisdiction
• piercing the corporate veil was proper when, among other things, evidence showed an individual was the corporation’s 96 sole shareholder; the individual was the corporation’s sole incorporator; and only the individual gave loans to and borrowed money from the corporation
• where a subsidiary “is so controlled by the parent as to justify disregard of the separate entity[,] jurisdiction over the subsidiary will support jurisdiction over the parent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).