HBD, Inc. v. Steri-Tex Corp.

EAGLES, Judge.

The question of personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation must be resolved by means of a bifurcated inquiry. We must first determine whether the North Carolina statutes permit the exercise of jurisdiction over the defendant and, secondly, whether the exercise of that statutory power will violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Hankins v. Somers, 39 N.C. App. 617, 251 S.E. 2d 640, *762rev. denied, 297 N.C. 300, 254 S.E. 2d 920 (1979). Since defendant’s brief concedes that the first requirement, statutory authority, has been…