SCM GROUP USA, INC. v. PROTEK MACHINERY CO.

No. 24546-2-III.

150 P.3d 141 (2007)

SCM GROUP USA, INC., Appellant, v. PROTEK MACHINERY COMPANY, and STEVEN DAVID GOEKE aka Steve Goeke and Jennifer Goeke, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

January 9, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Lee Preg, John Kenneth Butler, Preg O'Donnell & Gillett PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Appellant.

Douglas Warr Nicholson, Erin Lisa Anderson, Cone, Gilreath, Ellis, Cole & Anderson, Ellensburg, WA, for Respondents.


SWEENEY, C.J.

¶ 1 Parties may certainly stipulate to the jurisdiction of the courts of a particular state by agreement. But here an exclusive distributorship agreement providing for jurisdiction of any dispute in the Georgia courts was terminated. And the judgment that the creditor seeks to enforce is for monies due for transactions after the termination of that exclusive distributorship agreement. We therefore affirm the trial judge's refusal to enforce the...

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