Ken Hoagland v. Bill Butcher, Kari Butcher, Butcher & Butcher, and OCTV Partners, LLC

The plurality opinion concludes that the Butchers and OCTV failed to properly negate every ground for personal jurisdiction alleged in Hoagland’s petition and that, therefore, the burden did not shift to Hoagland to prove his jurisdictional facts. Plurality Opinion at 9-12. It, as well as the concurring opinion, rejects all of appel-lees’ affidavits as conclusory. I respectfully disagree, that we should reject the OCTV affidavit because it did not provide the underlying facts to support its conclusions.

Second, I do not agree that the Butchers’ affidavits are so conclusory that they did not…