Maker v. Bermingham

After the plaintiff brought suit in the Superior Court to recover damages allegedly caused by the failure of the defendants, who were residents of Vermont, to perform their obligations under a written agreement (the agreement) to produce, edit, and market a video magazine to be known as “The Morgan Horse Video Review,” the motion judge denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, see Mass.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2), 365 Mass. 755 (1974), and the trial judge later denied a renewal of the same motion. There followed a four-day bench trial on the merits. At…