Scovill Manufacturing Company, a Corporation v. Dateline Electric Co., Ltd., a Corporation

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

The question presented for review is whether a federal district court in Illinois acquired personal jurisdiction over an English corporation in a diversity action for breach of contract. The district court, 319 F.Supp. 772, in applying the Illinois “long arm” statute, Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 110 § 17 (1969),1 held that jurisdiction over the defendant had not been acquired. We take the opposite view and reverse.

The plaintiff, Scovill Manufacturing Company, a Connecticut corporation, is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of electric housewares products. The defendant,…