Hapner v. Rolf Brauchli, Inc.

(for remand). While I agree with my colleague that the requisite "minimum contacts” 1 justifying the exercise of long-arm jurisdiction may be established without proof of "solicitation, sale or delivery within the state of injury by the defendant [manufacturer] to the plaintiff”, an out-of-state manufacturer is not subject to Michigan long-arm jurisdiction merely because one of its products was brought into Michigan and caused harm to a Michigan resident and it was foreseeable that might occur. "Proof alone that a nonresident caused an effect in Michigan that was foreseeable does not…