Jenkinson v. MURROW BROTHERS SEED CO., INC.

Littlejohn, Justice:

Plaintiff Delmar Jenkinson is the ultimate consumer of soybean seed produced and certified by the defendant Murrow Brothers, a Georgia corporation. Jenkinson sued Murrow and others in South Carolina, alleging defective seed. The only issue on this appeal from the order of the circuit judge, dismissing the action as to Murrow, is whether Murrow has submitted itself to the jurisdiction of the South Carolina courts either by (1) doing business in this state so as to come within the orbit of South Carolina’s “long arm statute,” or by (2) appearing generally in this action.

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