Roger Williams General Hospital v. Fall River Trust Co.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is a civil action in which Roger Williams General Hospital (the hospital), a Rhode Island corporation, seeks to recover funds allegedly converted by a Massachusetts banking corporation, Fall River Trust Company (the bank). The issue before us is whether the bank had maintained, at the time this claim arose, the requisite minimum contact with the State of Rhode Island which would allow the Superior Court to exercise personal jurisdiction over the bank consistent with the requirements of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and G.L.1956 (1969…