OMSTEAD v. BRADER HEATERS, INC.

No. 443-41731-2.

5 Wn. App. 258 (1971)

487 P.2d 234

FRANK B. OMSTEAD et al., Petitioners, v. BRADER HEATERS, INC., et al., Petitioners, YEOMANS-HAUFF, LTD., et al., Defendants, KUBOTA IRON AND MACHINERY WORKS, LTD., Respondent.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

July 9, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Halverson, Applegate, McDonald, Bond & Grahn, J.S. Applegate, and William F. Almon, for petitioners Omstead et al.

Minnick, Hahner & Hubbard and R.F. Monahan, for petitioner Brader Heaters, Inc.

Leavy, Taber & Schultz and John G. Schultz, for petitioner Trans-Global Metals, Inc.

Sherwood, Tugman, Gose & Reser and William M. Tugman (Springer, Cornman & King, Noel Cornman, Goldsmith, Siegel & Engel, and Gerson F. Goldsmith, of counsel), for respondent.


ARMSTRONG, J.

[1] This writ of certiorari raises a single jurisdictional issue: Do the courts of this state have personal jurisdiction over Kubota Iron and Machinery Works, Ltd., a Japanese corporation, when a product of that corporation is placed in the channels of international commerce by sale to an intermediary in Japan with the knowledge that the product would be sold in the United States, and that product causes injury in the state of Washington...

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