Rar, Incorporated, an Illinois Corporation v. Turner Diesel, Limited

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• holding that, because personal jurisdiction is waivable, parties can contract around minimum contacts requirement
• stating that the plaintiff “is entitled to have any conflicts in the affidavits resolved in its favor”
• holding that the fact that defendant would not have been performing the task that subjected him to liability but for his previous contacts with plaintiff in. Illinois was a loose causal connection that did not provide the basis for personal jurisdiction
• holding that minimum contacts analysis should consider “parties’ actual course of dealing”
• holding that more than just an ongoing relationship with a business entity must exist to establish specific personal jurisdiction because “the action must directly arise out of the specific contacts between the defendant and the forum state”
• holding that the fact that defendant would not have been performing the task that subjected him to liability but for his previous contacts with plaintiff in Illinois was a loose causal connection that did not provide the basis for personal jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).