FIRST-CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY v. McDaniel

CAMPBELL, Judge.

In International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 90 L.Ed. 95, 66 S.Ct. 154 (1945), the United States Supreme Court defined the outer limits of in personam jurisdiction over nonresident defendants: “ [D] ue process requires only that in order to subject a defendant to a judgment in personam, if he be not present within the territory of the forum, he have certain minimum contacts with it such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend ‘traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.’ ”

In McGee v. International Life Ins. Co., 355 U.S. 220, 2 L.Ed. 2d 223, 78…