Cornerstone Healthcare Group Holding, Inc. v. Nautic Partners Vi, L.P., Reliant Splitter, L.P., and Kennedy Plaza Partners Vi, L.P.

JUSTICE LÉHRMANN

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In these causes we consider whether Texas courts have specific, personal jurisdiction over three nonresident private-equity fund limited partnerships and their general partner. The funds invested in a newly created Texas subsidiary that purchased a chain of Texas hospitals from a Texas company. The plaintiff, another Texas company allegedly in the market to purchase the hospitals, asserts that this conduct was tortious and subjects the defendants to Texas’s jurisdiction with respect to claims arising out of that conduct. We agree and hold…