White House, Inc. v. Winkler

How courts have described this case

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• holding major shareholder’s promise to guarantee corporate debts not original undertaking, in part because corporation was not released from liability
• extensive negotiations between California resident and Georgia corporation and commitment by nonresident to continuing obligations to resident plaintiff held sufficient to authorize jurisdiction over nonresident
• “[T]he statute of frauds does not apply to ‘an original undertaking whereby a new promisor, for a valuable consideration between him and the promisee, substitutes himself as the party who is to perform, thus causing the original promisor to be released from the contract.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).