South Carolina ex rel. Tindal v. Block

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that whether the defendant contemplated performance of the contract in Wisconsin at the time of contracting is relevant to the due process analysis
• concluding that personal jurisdiction existed over a corporation owned as an asset by South Carolina that solicited a Wisconsin company to prepare a study and report concerning a dam
• “Wisconsin has a compelling interest in offering its residents legal avenues for enforcing contracts with nonresidents”
• court declined “to create a rule that would require a defendant to step across state lines as a predicate for personal jurisdiction”
• defendants initiated contractual relationship with Wisconsin business and defendants knew that the plaintiff would perform most of the work on the contract in Wisconsin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).