Southern MacHine Company, Inc. v. Mohasco Industries, Inc.

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• recognizing that although defendant had not solicited the original agreement, it unquestionably had purposefully availed itself of the license agreement at issue in the case
• holding “defendant’s activities or the consequences thereof must have a substantial enough connection with the forum state to make the exercise of jurisdiction over the defendant reasonable”
• noting that soliciting business by mail, transmission of radio broadcasts, and sending items into the state to be sold by independent contractors constitute the transaction of business in the state
• finding purposeful availment where the defendant entered into a licensing agreement which contemplated the manufacture and marketing of the licensed item in the forum state
• Tennessee’s legislators “have declared that State’s interest in any cause of action arising from any business transaction in Tennessee”
• \the contention that [plaintiff] solicited the license agreement from [defendant] is immaterial ... [defendant] chose to deal with [plaintiff]....\

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