Tietloff v. Lift-A-Loft Corp.

SULLIVAN, Judge.

Randy Tietloff, plaintiff below, 1 appeals an adverse judgment in his action to enforce an Arkansas default judgment against Lift-A-Loft Corporation (Lift-ALoft), defendant below. The only issue presented is whether the trial court erred in determining that the Arkansas state court lacked personal jurisdiction over Lift-ALoft.

The facts of record are simple and substantially without conflict. In 1975, Tiet-loff, an Arkansas resident, contacted Bob Duncan, then vice-president in charge of the equipment division of Lift-A-Loft, an Indiana corporation, in an effort to interest the…