Wilen Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. The Standard Products Company

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This diversity action for breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation was brought by Wilen Manufacturing Company, a Georgia corporation with its principal place of business in Atlanta, against Standard Products, an Ohio corporation with its principal place of business in Cleveland. The trial court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding that service of process on the defendant in Ohio was insufficient because the Georgia long-arm statute establishing jurisdiction over nonresidents for causes of action…