M & F Worldwide Corp. v. Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Co.

In this case involving issues of personal jurisdiction, we consider the trial court’s denial of special appearances filed by several related nonresident corporate defendants that entered into an agreement with Texas companies to settle a New York lawsuit. The nonresident plaintiff in this *880suit alleges that, by virtue of the settlement agreement, the parties to the agreement tortiously interfered with another nonresident company’s indemnity obligations to the plaintiff. To support Texas’s specific jurisdiction over the nonresident defendants, the plaintiff alleges that the agreement was…