Payton v. Summit Loans, Inc.

KERN, Associate Judge:

This appeal presents for our determination whether appellee, a foreign corporation, is doing business in the District of Columbia and therefore subject to the service of process by our residents and the jurisdiction of our courts.

Appellant, a resident of the District of Columbia, brought action against appellee, a Maryland corporation engaged in the business of lending money, to recover damages he allegedly suffered as a result of appellee’s wrongful repossession of his automobile from a private parking lot in Maryland after he had defaulted on the repayment of a loan to…