Casework, Inc. v. Hardwood Associates, Inc. Hanover Insurance Company

Hardwood Associates, Inc., and Hardwood Associates Nationwide, LLC (collectively Hardwood), appeals the judgment in favor of Casework, Inc., after a bench-tried case. Hardwood argues that the trial court erred in determining that personal jurisdiction existed and in requiring a non-lawyer to represent a corporation at trial. We affirm.

Factual and Procedural History

Casework, a now-defunct Missouri corporation, and Hardwood, an Iowa subcontractor company, éntered into an agreement to work on a project in Colorado. To form the agreement, Hardwood submitted a bid to Casework by e-mail, and the…