CENTURY DATA SYSTEMS, INC. v. MCDONALD

No. 9210SC318.

428 S.E.2d 190 (1993)

109 N.C. App. 425

CENTURY DATA SYSTEMS, INC. a North Carolina Corporation, Plaintiff/Appellee v. Charles McDONALD, Jr.; Dennis Henderson; Frank N. Perkins and Romaine Barker, Jr., jointly and severally, Defendants/Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee A. Patterson, II and Henry A. Mitchell, III, Durham, for plaintiff-appellee.

Harris, Shields and Creech, P.A. by C. David Creech, New Bern, and David S. Morris, Cary, for defendant-appellants.


EAGLES, Judge.

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the trial court correctly determined that it had personal jurisdiction over each of the defendants. We agree with the trial court and affirm.

To decide the issue of whether or not personal jurisdiction exists over an outof-state defendant, we must make a twopart inquiry. First, we must decide if the transaction at issue is covered by a "long arm" statute. If so, we must then decide if exercise...

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