Legal Opinion
Rar, Incorporated, an Illinois Corporation v. Turner Diesel, Limited
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 3, 1997No. 96-2280PublishedCited by 327 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
This case poses the difficult question of how closely connected a cause of action must be to a defendant’s contacts with a forum to justify personal jurisdiction over the defendant in that forum. RAR, Inc. (“RAR”) is an Illinois corporation that, between 1991 and 1993, sold engine parts many times from its offices in Illinois to Turner Diesel, Ltd. (“Turner”), a Scottish corporation. In 1993, RAR agreed to buy four diesel, locomotive engines from another Scottish company. RAR arranged for Turner, however, to get the engines in Scotland, dismantle and purchase various…
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