Dillon v. Numismatic Funding Corp.

BROCK, Chief Judge.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether defendant, a foreign corporation with no office, agents, or regular business activity in North Carolina, is subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the North Carolina courts for purposes of a cause of action arising outside North Carolina, brought by a plaintiff who was a resident of another state at the time the action arose, and which is entirely distinct from defendant’s nominal contacts with North Carolina.

First, defendant contends that the plaintiff lacks adequate statutory authority upon which to base in…