SOUTHWIRE CO. v. TRANS-WORLD METALS & CO., LTD.

Nos. 83-8391, 83-8546.

735 F.2d 440 (1984)

SOUTHWIRE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRANS-WORLD METALS & COMPANY, LTD., and Trans-World Metals, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Bratton, Jr., John G. Despriet, Jane Childs Carr, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Howard A. Rosenstein, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, HILL and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Chief Judge:

In this appeal we decide whether the Georgia long arm statute subjects the nonresident defendants to the jurisdiction of a Georgia court. Defendants came to Georgia to solicit sales of scrap aluminum to plaintiff. They returned to New York, and later, without coming back to Georgia, they entered by phone the contract here in dispute for sale to plaintiff of primary aluminum. Some months later defendants returned to Georgia to discuss the contract...

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