Masada Investment Corp. v. Allen

OPINION

COOPER, Chief Justice.

The sole issue for review is whether the third-party defendant, Robert M. Allen, a Texas attorney, had sufficient minimum contacts with Tennessee to confer in per-sonam long-arm jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals affirmed the chancellor’s holding that Allen had insufficient contacts with Tennessee to sustain jurisdiction. We reverse the Court of Appeals and hold that Allen had sufficient contacts with Tennessee to confer jurisdiction upon the courts of this state.

This suit arises out of a real estate transaction begun in 1981 when Richard J. Hoc-kert, a Texas real…