(DOWNLOAD) "Carlson Manufacturing" by In the Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Carlson Manufacturing
- Author : In the Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
- Release Date : January 03, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a special appearance. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. 51.014(a)(7) (Vernon Supp. 2005). Allegedly injured in a fall when the seat broke on his tree-mounted deer stand, Charles Shane Smith filed a products liability action against a number of defendants alleged to have placed the deer stand into the stream of commerce. Buckfinder Hunting Products, Inc. ("Buckfinder") submitted to the jurisdiction of the trial court, but Carlson Manufacturing, Inc. ("Carlson") filed a special appearance. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 120a. Smith contended Carlson is subject to personal jurisdiction in Texas courts because Buckfinder conducted business in Texas and the two corporations maintain a single business enterprise. Smith also argued to the trial court that Buckfinder is an alter ego of Carlson. On appeal, we must resolve whether the trial court erred: (1) in imputing another corporations contacts to the appellant; and (2) by denying a special appearance filed by a corporation that conducts no business in Texas and did not manufacture, market, or sell the product at issue in the litigation. We find the evidence does not support the imputation of Buckfinders activities in the forum state to Carlson; therefore, we reverse the trial courts order and render judgment dismissing the claims against the appellant.
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