Winward v. Holly Creek Mills, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a cause of action arises out of a defendant’s transaction of business for purposes of our long-arm statute when the cause of action lies “within the wake of defendant’s commercial activity”
• concluding that defendant’s actions of hiring plaintiff to solicit orders, make delivery to purchasers, advertise products and paying plaintiffs wages in New Mexico for these services constituted a transaction of business in New Mexico
• “[t]here must be a close relationship between jurisdictional activities and the cause of action”
• “The statutory phrase ‘arising from’ requires only that the plaintiffs claim be one which lies in the wake of the commercial activities by which the defendant submitted to the jurisdiction of the ... courts.”
• nonresident defendant hired resident plaintiff to arrange advertising and solicit orders for defendant’s products in New Mexico, defendant paid a salary to plaintiff in New Mexico and shipped products to New Mexico; jurisdiction asserted over defendant
• nonresident defendant hired resident plaintiff to arrange advertising and solicit orders for defendant's products in New Mexico, defendant paid a salary to plaintiff in New Mexico and shipped products to New Mexico; jurisdiction asserted over defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).