Legal Opinion
Alan W. Wolf and Gail S. Wolf v. Richmond County Hospital Authority
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 4, 1984No. 84-1024PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:
The issue in this appeal is whether a Georgia hospital’s contacts with the State of South Carolina are sufficient to constitute “doing business” for purposes of obtaining personal jurisdiction under the South Carolina long-arm statute. We find that the hospital’s contacts are not purposeful, systematic or significant enough to warrant the exercise of jurisdiction in light of due process guarantees and this court’s standard that the contacts with the forum state be “fairly extensive” when the cause of action arises outside that state. We, therefore, reverse the decision…
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