Legal Opinion
Nicholstone Book Bindery, Inc. v. Chelsea House Publishers
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 5, 1981PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BROCK, Justice.
The principal question here is whether there are sufficient “minimum contacts” to confer in personam long-arm jurisdiction over the defendant foreign corporation which has conducted a single business transaction with the plaintiff, a Tennessee corporation.
Plaintiff, a Tennessee book binder, filed suit in Davidson County Chancery Court against Chelsea, a New York publishing house, alleging the defendant’s failure to make payment for printing and binding done in Tennessee by plaintiff and shipped to defendant in New York. Defendant filed a Rule 12.02(2), T.R.C.P., motion…
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