Legal Opinion
ESAB Group, Inc. v. Centricut, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 17, 1997No. 96-2504PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
In this case we must determine whether the district court in South Carohna obtained personal jurisdiction over New Hampshire defendants pursuant to a complaint alleging a civil RICO claim and related state law claims. The district court, relying on South Carolina’s long-arm statute, found that the defendants’ intentional tortious conduct directed at the South Carohna plaintiff supplied sufficient minimum contacts to satisfy the requirements of the South Carohna statute and the Fourteenth Amendment.
For reasons that follow, we disagree with the district court’s…
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