Shellenberger v. Tanner

How courts have described this case

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

• unnecessary for individual corporate officers of seller to actually be present in the state at the time fraudulent misrepresentations were made
• sale of airplane to Georgia corporation in Oklahoma which was resold in this state held to establish sufficient minimum contact
• followed in, Smith v. Smith, 254 Ga. 450, 453, 330 S.E.2d 706 (1985); Delong Equipment Co. v. Washington Mills Abrasive Co., 840 F.2d 843, 849 (11th Cir.1988)
• ”[T]he clear and discernible trend of recent authority is to the effect that a single act by the nonresident in the forum, ... having its impact within the territory of the forum may satisfy the 'minimum contacts' test.”
• in which this court held a foreign corporation had “causal responsibility” for the presence of an allegedly defective aircraft in this state because it sold the aircraft in another state to a Georgia corporation knowing it would be resold to a Georgia resident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).