McClay v. Mid-Atlantic Country Magazine

Mid-Atlantic Country Magazine, a Virginia corporation, appeals an order of the Circuit Court of Tucker County granting a default judgment against it in the amount of $66,500 to Don McClay and Mountain Top Realty, Inc., a domestic corporation. On appeal, Mid-Atlantic maintains that because of defective service of process the circuit court lacked personal jurisdiction over it. Because we agree that the circuit court lacked personal jurisdiction over Mid-Atlantic, we reverse the order of the circuit court.

On December 19, 1990, the appellees 1 instituted a civil action in the Circuit Court of…