STATE EX REL. MILLER v. INTERNAL ENERGY, ETC.

No. 66390.

324 N.W.2d 707 (1982)

STATE of Iowa ex rel. Thomas J. MILLER, Attorney General of Iowa, Appellant, v. INTERNAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, Carl Wolff, and Carlos R. Sotelo, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas R. Carlson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Nick Critelli of Critelli & Foxhoven, Des Moines, and Thomas J. McCann, Student Legal Intern, for appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP, McGIVERIN, and CARTER, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The question in this appeal is whether Iowa courts can exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident corporate agent in his individual capacity on the basis of his activities undertaken on behalf of a foreign corporation which itself is amenable to suit under the long-arm statute. Iowa Code § 617.3 (1979).

On February 27, 1980, the Attorney General commenced this consumer fraud action in equity alleging the following facts.

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