Federated Rural Electric Insurance Corp. v. Inland Power and Light Co.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

In this case, Federated Rural Electric Insurance Corporation (“Plaintiff’), an insurer of electric cooperatives, alleged that Inland Power and Light Company (“Defendant”), along with other electric cooperatives located in the Pacific Northwest, engaged in fraud and misrepresentation when it purchased additional insurance and increased the limits on its existing insurance with Plaintiff. Defendant moved the district court to dismiss Plaintiffs suit for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court granted Defendant’s motion. Plaintiff now appeals and we affirm, adopting the…