McCombs v. Cerco Rentals

OPINION

GODDARD, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal, Potain, S.A., Defendant-Appellant, a French manufacturer, insists that the Law Court of Sullivan County erred in denying its motion to dismiss the claim filed by J. E. McCombs and wife Emma McCombs, Plaintiffs-Appellees, premised upon want of personal jurisdiction. Potain, S.A. contends that under the facts of this case T.C.A. 20-235, Tennessee’s long-arm statute, cannot be the basis for a Tennessee court exercising personal jurisdiction, and, alternatively, that if the statute is so broadly construed it is invalid under the due process…