Southern Plastics Co. v. Southern Commerce Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an out-of-state bank’s single act of issuing a letter of credit to a South Carolina beneficiary insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction over the bank
• noting the unilateral actions of another cannot confer personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant
• “If either prong fails, the exercise of personal jurisdiction over the defendant fails to comport with the requirements of due process.”
• “This ‘purposeful availment’ requirement ensures that a defendant will not be haled into a jurisdiction solely as a result of random, fortuitous, or attenuated contacts.”
• same, but with additional focus on the due process portion of the analysis
• \The plaintiff bears the burden of satisfying both tests.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).