Carter v. Mississippi Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance

¶1 Michael Carter and Tina Schmidt (“Carter” and “Schmidt,” respectively), appeal from an Order of the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, in which the court granted summary judgment to defendant Mississippi Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (“MFBCIC”) and dismissed Carter’s and Schmidt’s lawsuit for lack of personal jurisdiction over MFBCIC. We affirm.

ISSUE

¶2 We restate the issue as follows: Did the District Court err when it granted MFBCIC’s motion for summary judgment on the grounds that the court did not have personal jurisdiction over MFBCIC?

FACTUAL AND…