Carjan Corp. v. Sonner

OPINION

Defendant, Carjan Corporation, a nonresident corporation, appeals by writ of error from a default judgment rendered against it, asserting that the attempted service on it under our long-arm statute, TEX.CIV. PRAC. & REM.CODE ANN. §§ 17.041 et seq., was ineffective to subject it to the in personam jurisdiction of the Texas court.

Plaintiff, Kimberly Geick Sonner, alleged that defendant was a nonresident corporation which failed to maintain an agent for service in Texas and that defendant did business in Texas in that it owned and operated the bowling alley in this state where plaintiff…