STATE BY HUMPHREY v. Granite Gate Resorts

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• noting that nonresident defendants cannot claim inconvenience as an excuse to avoid personal jurisdiction, particularly since Minnesota has an interest in regulating advertisements
• acknowledging that radio and television advertisements confer jurisdiction and equating internet advertisements similar thereto
• acknowledging that a Minnesota consumer investigator dialed nonresident defendant’s toll-free phone number
• noting this factor alone cannot confer jurisdiction, but it can support jurisdiction in light of the other three factors
• “A defendant cannot hide behind the structuring of its distribution system when the defendant's intent was to enter the market in the forum state and profit thereby.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).