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Berk v. Gordon Johnson Company

District Court, E.D. Michigan

Decided December 19, 1962No. Civ. A. 22684PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FREEMAN, District Judge.

This is an action for breach of warranty arising out of the purchase of certain chicken processing equipment and is now before the Court on the motion of defendant, a foreign corporation, to quash service of process. The grounds of the motion are that defendant’s activities in Michigan did not establish a sufficient nexus with that State to render it amenable to suit by plaintiffs and that if Michigan law does hold defendant’s activities sufficient, such state law is in contravention of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause of the…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. International Shoe Co. v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  2. Hanson v. DencklaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  3. McGee v. International Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  4. International Harvester Co. of America v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  5. York Manufacturing Co. v. ColleySupreme Court of the United States · 1918

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Gavin v. Read CorporationDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1973
  2. Donley v. Whirlpool CorporationDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1964
  3. Jackson v. Continental Trailways, Inc.District Court, D. Nevada · 1974
  4. Mahanna v. FranconeroDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1963

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