Otto v. Dakota Arms, Inc.

MEMORANDUM *

Appellants Ron Otto, Aaron Pursley and Little Sharps Rifle Manufacturing, LLP (collectively “Sharps”) appeal the district court’s grant of appellee Dakota Arms, Inc.’s (“Dakota”) motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The facts and procedural history are known to the parties and we do not recount them here.

First, Montana lacked general jurisdiction over Dakota because Sharps did not establish that Dakota’s contacts with Montana were substantial or continuous and systematic. See Threlkeld v. Colorado, 303 Mont. 432, 16 P.3d 359, 361 (2000). Dakota’s contacts with…