National Can Corporation v. K Beverage Company, Barbara Lundervold, Hayden Thompson and Joanne Thompson, Allen Lundervold and Warren Anderson

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This case presents an interesting set of facts concerning the constitutional reach of a state long-arm statute. At issue is whether or not all of the facts and circumstances of this case, beginning with the execution of personal guaranties by the five defendants, give Kentucky in personam jurisdiction over all of these nonresident guarantors.

Plaintiff National Can, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Illinois, contracted to sell glass bottles to defendant K Beverage Company (henceforth KBC), a Colorado corporation with its…