Douglas MacHine & Engineering Co. v. Hyflow Blanking Press Corp.

MASON, Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Douglas Machine & Engineering Co., Inc., from the trial court’s ruling sustaining the special appearance of defendant, Hyflow Blanking Press Corporation, challenging the jurisdiction of the Iowa court to subject defendant to a judgment in personam. Plaintiff, an Iowa corporation, is a tool and die manufacturer with its principal place of business in Davenport. Defendant, a New York corporation, is a press manufacturer with its principal place of business in Tarrytown. It has no office in Iowa and had never been authorized to do business in this…