Dreyfus Co., Inc. v. Royster Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

The defendant attacks jurisdiction in this cause by a motion to dismiss. The operative facts are not in serious dispute. Plaintiff, an Arkansas corporation, brought suit against the defendant, a Virginia corporation, for alleged failure to comply with terms of a contract under which defendant undertook to purchase 5,000 bushels of soy beans from plaintiff. Defendants had purchased soybeans from plaintiff during the 1977 season and on February 15, 1978 Paul Dreyfus, a corporate officer of plaintiff, called defendant’s agent, Jim Holloway, in…