BROWN v. FLOWERS INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 81-4451.

688 F.2d 328 (1982)

Pete Harding BROWN and Mott's Inc. of Mississippi, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FLOWERS INDUSTRIES, INC., A Delaware Corporation, Jerry Kralis, and Kralis Brothers Foods, Inc., An Indiana Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cliff Finch, Batesville, Miss., William Clement Walker, Jr., University, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jackson H. Ables, III, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, RUBIN and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 22, 1982.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

This suit was dismissed by the district court for want of jurisdiction on the basis that due process would be denied by assuming jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant whose sole contact with the forum state was the making of a single defamatory telephone call to a person in that state. Concluding that, under the facts presented, due process permits invocation of jurisdiction...

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