Legal Opinion
Salinas v. CMMC
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided August 16, 1995No. 03-94-00685-CVPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.
This case asks us to determine whether Texas can assert personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation that shipped its allegedly defective product to Texas but had no other significant contacts with the state. Appellee CMMC made a special appearance to contest Texas’s in personam jurisdiction; after a hearing on the issue, the trial court dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction. Appellant Ambrocio Salmas argues in four points of error that Texas may assert personal jurisdiction over CMMC. Because we agree that assumption of jurisdiction over this foreign…
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