Mutual International Export Co. v. Napco Industries, Inc.

Appellant brought an action against the Alpana Corporation and Napco charging Alpana with breach of contract and Napco with tortiously inducing the breach. The District Court dismissed the action as to Napco after granting its motion to quash the service on its resident agent in the District of Columbia. The motion to quash alleged that Napco had not qualified to do, and was not doing, business in the District.1 The complaint filed in the District Court does not allege a jurisdictional basis. It does appear, however, that the action was cognizable in the District Court as a federal court2 and…