Legal Opinion
Witbeck v. Bill Cody's Ranch Inn
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided August 24, 1987No. Docket Nos. 75650, 77913, (Calendar Nos. 4-5)PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGbiffin, J.
These cases, one a personal injury action and the other a products liability suit, require that we examine the reach of Michigan’s long-arm statute in asserting limited personal jurisdiction over nonresident corporations, MCL 600.715; MSA 27A.715.
Because the proofs are inadequate in each instance to demonstrate that the defendant "purposefully availed” itself of the privilege of conducting activities within Michigan, we conclude that exercise of long-arm jurisdiction in these cases would violate protection accorded nonresidents by the Due Process Clause of the federal constitution.
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