Proctor & Schwartz, Inc. v. Cleveland Lumber Co.

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

In this suit on a contract we are asked to determine whether the Pennsylvania courts may obtain in per-sonam jurisdiction over a Georgia corporation which entered into a contract of purchase with a Pennsylvania corporation. The court below held that the Georgia corporation had sufficient minimum contacts with Pennsylvania to justify the exercise of in personam jurisdiction by the Pennsylvania courts. We agree.

On March 19, 1969, after extensive negotiations in Georgia and by mail and over the telephone, appellant, a Georgia corporation, signed a contract while in Georgia…