Tom Brown & Co. v. Francis

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

Appellant contends that the trial judge erred by granting appellee’s motion for summary judgment and thereby enforcing appellee’s foreign default judgment against appellant. The default judgment had been obtained in a lawsuit filed in Maine. Appellant claims that the Maine court did not have in personam jurisdiction over it, thus rendering the judgment void and unenforceable. We consider the materials offered in opposition to summary judgment in the light most favorable to appellant. Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Co., 398 U.S. 144, 157, 90 S.Ct. 1598, 1608, 26 L.Ed.2d 142…