Tompkins v. Tompkins

WELLS, Judge.

The settled law of this State requires the application of a two-pronged test to determine whether personal jurisdiction maybe exercised over a foreign defendant. First, there must exist a statutory basis for exercising personal jurisdiction under the provisions of G.S. § 1-75.4, our long-arm statute. Second, the exercise of personal jurisdiction must comport with the due process requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, as articulated by the United States Supreme Court in International Shoe v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945), and its progeny. Schofield v. Schofield, 78 N.C. App.…