Inc. The trial court dismissed plaintiff's action, concluding that plaintiff had not established long arm jurisdiction over the nonresident defendant corporation. This appeal followed. The facts are not in dispute and are based on documentary evidence, including affidavits filed by the presidents of both plaintiff and defendant corporations. As a result, we have de novo review over the trial court's factual determinations. Plaintiff's principal place of business is in Lenexa, Kansas.
Defendant is an Illinois corporation, whose principal place of business is located in Chicago.
This lawsuit results from an oral agreement between the parties, wherein defendant agreed to buy and plaintiff agreed to sell a certain quantity of paper plates. The paper plates were to be manufactured in Kansas and delivered by plaintiff to defendant at its offices in Chicago. We note that in the past years, these same two parties had engaged in at least four separate contracts involving paper plates. Plaintiff mailed, from Kansas, a billing to defendant for that amount. At some point, the parties fell into a disagreement, and this action was filed.