Koll Real Estate Group, Inc. v. Purseley

OPINION

SHERRY RADACK, Chief Justice.

These case is an interlocutory, accelerated appeal from the trial court’s denial of a special appearance filed by appellant, Koll Real Estate Group, Inc. (Koll). See Tex. Civ. PRAC. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(7) (Vernon 2001). The issue we must decide is whether, by accepting an assignment of rights and liabilities under a purchase agreement, and agreeing to indemnify the purchaser for tort damages, some of which allegedly occurred in Texas, Koll has become amenable to suit in Texas, despite its own lack of minimum contacts thereto.

BACKGROUND

A. Procedural…