Legal Opinion
Donald Bruce Sondergard v. Miles, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 22, 1993No. 92-1274PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Our task in this diversity of citizenship case is to consider the novel question whether the South Dakota courts would exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation based upon service of process on that corporation’s registered agent, even though the cause of action arose outside the state before the corporation appointed the agent. South Dakota courts have not considered this precise question, and we can find no others that have. We believe, however, that South Dakota would accept jurisdiction over such a case, and that such jurisdiction would comply with…
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