Sculptchair, Inc. v. Century Arts, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defendants’ strictly corporate acts did not render them individually subject to Florida’s long-arm statute for carrying on a business of business venture
• explaining that once a defendant raises a meritorious challenge to personal jurisdiction through affidavits, documents, or testimony, the burden then shifts back to the plaintiff to produce evidence supporting jurisdiction
• noting that courts must consider whether a defendant has “sufficient minimum contacts” with a forum such that the “transitional notions of fair play and substantial justice” would be met with the maintenance of a suit in the forum
• finding minimum contacts partly because defendant “purposefully availed herself of the privilege of conducting business in Florida by marketing ... products in the state”
• rejecting, as a basis for jurisdiction under Florida’s long-arm statute, “a series of telephone conversations” and a one-hour meeting between the Canadian defendant and the plaintiff’s Florida office
• “[Selling products in a state] is the kind of activity that would lead a person to reasonably expect the possibility of ensuing litigation ... should some type of dissatisfaction or complications arise.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).