Griffith & Coe Advertising, Inc. v. Farmers & Merchants Bank

In this appeal, the appellant, Griffith & Coe Advertising, Inc., challenges the March 5, 2003, final order of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, West Virginia, dismissing its action against the appellee, Farmers & Merchants Bank and Trust, a banking institution, for lack of in personam jurisdiction. Griffith & Coe brought the action to recover compensatory and punitive damages for the bank’s alleged negligence and wrongful failure to recredit to Griffith & Coe’s business account funds which had been misappropriated by one of Griffith & Coe’s employees. The dismissal for lack of in personam…