Legal Opinion
Southwire Company v. Trans-World Metals & Company, Ltd., and Trans-World Metals, Inc., Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 1984No. 83-8391, 83-8546PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Chief Judge:
In this appeal we decide whether the Georgia long arm statute subjects the nonresident defendants to the jurisdiction of a Georgia court. Defendants came to Georgia to solicit sales of scrap aluminum to plaintiff. They returned to New York, and later, without coming back to Georgia, they entered by phone the contract here in dispute for sale to plaintiff of primary aluminum. Some months later defendants returned to Georgia to discuss the contract that had been made. We do not decide whether the pre-contract activity alone or the post-contract activity alone established…
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