United Buying Group, Inc. v. Coleman

VAUGHN, Judge.

These appeals present the question of whether the courts of North Carolina can exercise personal jurisdiction over either of *28the defendants. The question involves a two-part inquiry. Before the court may exercise jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant, it must have statutory authorization and its exercise of such jurisdiction must comport with the requirements of due process. Dillon v. Numismatic Funding Corp., 291 N.C. 674, 231 S.E. 2d 629 (1977).

This Court analyzed a similar set of facts in First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. McDaniel and held that “[w]here the nonresident…