Exito Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Trejo

In this interlocutory appeal of a trial court’s order denying a special appearance, the court of appeals held that Exito Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Exito”) waived its special appearance by taking certain actions in the trial court before filing and obtaining a ruling on the special appearance. We reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and remand the case to that court to consider the merits of the special appearance.

Paulino Trejo, Juana Zuniga, and Maria de la Luz Crecencia Salvador Guzman died in a house fire in 1998. The victims’ rela tives (hereinafter “Trejo”) sued several distributors and…