Legal Opinion
Happy Industrial Corp. v. American Specialties, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided December 10, 1998No. 13-97-531-CVPublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice DORSEY.
This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of a special appearance to contest the personal jurisdiction over appellant, Happy Industrial Corporation, a Japanese corporation. The underlying suit involved a dispute between Happy and the appellee, American Specialties, Inc. (ASI), over ASI’s. purchase of two new commercial embroidery machines manufactured by Happy. The machines were sold to ASI by Data-Stitch, Inc., who received the machines from Texmae, Inc. By two points of error Happy asserts the trial court erred- in holding it was subject to personal jurisdiction…
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