Marshall Exports, Inc. v. C. A. Phillips, D/B/A Phillips Hardwood Sales Co., and Takashimaya Co., Ltd.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

With diversity of citizenship undisputed, the controversy in this contract action is on whether personal jurisdiction was ever obtained over the nonresident defendant foreign corporation. The District Court dismissed for want of such jurisdiction.

On February 23, 1973 in the State court, Marshall Exports, Inc. of North Carolina sued C. A. Phillips, a resident of Mississippi, and Takashimaya Company, Ltd., a Japanese corporation, for damages of several million dollars alleged as suffered from the breach by the defendants of two lumber purchase agreements.…