Traub v. Robertson-American Corp.

Few jurisdictional points attract as much interest and litigation as the susceptibility to suit of an unlicensed foreign corporation in a State in which it is not licensed to do business.

Two broad principles embrace the area. The first allows suit generally against an unlicensed foreign corporation actually doing business in the State. The second deals with a loosely defined area of lesser corporate presence them doing business; but, where, nevertheless, some corporate business has been transacted in the State. This second jurisdictional facet, colorfully denominated "long-arm,” permits suits…