Noll v. American Biltrite, Inc.

¶1 A Washington court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over the nonresident supplier of raw asbestos used as a component of asbestos-cement pipe when the pipe, manufactured in California, enters the stream of commerce and is sold on a regular basis to buyers in Washington. The defendant supplier in this case did not *576specifically target Washington as a destination for its product and may not have actually known that its asbestos was ending up in Washington as a component of pipe. Nevertheless, the regular course of sales that brought the pipe into Washington satisfies the due…