The Toro Company and Toro Sales Company v. Ballas Liquidating Company and Weed Eater, Inc., and H. Spencer Stone Associates, Inc.

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

The Toro Company and Toro Sales Company (herein referred to jointly as Toro) bring this interlocutory appeal from an order of the district court dismissing, for want of personal jurisdiction, Toro’s complaint as against H. Spencer Stone Associates, Inc., d/b/a International Marketing Associates (IMA). We agree with the district court that application of the Minnesota long arm statute to acquire jurisdiction over the defendant in this case would be unconstitutional and, therefore, we affirm the order of dismissal.

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The Toro Company is a Minnesota corporation engaged in the…