United States Eighth Circuit

Plaintiffs in a Real Estate Settlement Practices Act did not show that defendant had any direct contacts with Arkansas, and defendant's mere ownership of a title company in Arkansas was too distant and limited a contact to Arkansas to justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2003
• Published 04/01/2003

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, BEAM, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven E. Cauley, argued, Little Rock, Arkansas (J. Allen Carney and Randall K. Pulliam, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marie B. Miller, argued, Little Rock, Arkansas (Richard L. Lawrence, on the brief), for appellee.