Legal Opinion
Yates v. Motivation Industrial Equipment Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 20, 2002No. 01-1938UnpublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Motivation Industrial Equipment, Ltd. (Motivation), a Canadian corporation, appeals the district court’s order denying its *175motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. Because the record does not establish that Motivation had the necessary minimum contacts with North Carolina so as to comport with the requirements of due process, we reverse.
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Thomas Yates, an employee of Polar Plastics Inc. (Polar), located in Moores-ville, North Carolina, was fatally injured on July 18, 1997, when a gantry crane manufactured by Motivation collapsed and fell on him.1 Trina Yates, as…
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