SONDERGARD v. MILES, INC.

No. 92-1274.

985 F.2d 1389 (1993)

Donald Bruce SONDERGARD, Appellant, v. MILES, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen H. Johnson, Rapid City, SD, argued (Wayne F. Gilbert, Rapid City, SD, and Paul D. Rheingold, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Donald E. Shely, Detroit, MI, argued (William G. Porter and Patricia A. Meyers, Rapid City, SD, and Susan Artinian, Daniel J. Stephenson and Marie R. Deveney, Detroit, MI, on the brief), for appellee.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and VAN SICKLE, Senior District Judge.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Our task in this diversity of citizenship case is to consider the novel question whether the South Dakota courts would exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation based upon service of process on that corporation's registered agent, even though the cause of action arose outside the state before the corporation appointed the agent. South Dakota courts have not considered this precise question, and we can find no others that have...

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