Opinion ID: 602
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Poison Control Center

Text: Cossaboon emphasizes that at the time of E.C.'s alleged injury, MMC was registered to do business in New Hampshire and employed one person in New Hampshire to do work related to the Poison Control Center. Corporate registration in New Hampshire adds some weight to the jurisdictional analysis, but it is not alone sufficient to confer general jurisdiction. See Sandstrom, 904 F.2d at 89 (finding no general jurisdiction where, inter alia, company was registered to do business in forum and conducted limited advertising in forum). [P]reparations to do business at an indeterminate future date, without more, cannot be confused with actually doing business in the forum state. Id. We do not find it significant that MMC stated on its application for business registration that its principal business purpose was including but not limited to poison control serv[ic]es. There is no evidence that MMC conducted any services in New Hampshire apart from those described above related to the Poison Control Center. At most, MMC's broad statement of its business purposes on its registration application suggests preparations to do additional business in New Hampshire at some point in the future. Here, MMC's lone Poison Control Center employee in New Hampshire did not provide any medical services, poison-related or otherwise, in New Hampshire. Calls to the Poison Control Center are handled by MMC staff in Maine, and all of MMC's poison-related medical services are provided in Maine. Instead, MMC's one New Hampshire-based employee simply provided information and consultation services to healthcare providers and others interested in the Poison Control Center's work. MMC's employment of one person to educate New Hampshire residents about the availability of MMC's poison-related services is akin to a company's employment of individuals to advertise company products to forum residents. We have held that far more extensive advertising and marketing activities in the forum state fell short of establishing general jurisdiction. See Glater, 744 F.2d at 215 (employment of eight salesmen to market products in forum state); Seymour, 423 F.2d at 585 (employment of six salesmen in forum state). Furthermore, while in cases like Glater and Seymour the products advertised are then sold for use in the forum state, here MMC's advertised services are available only in Maine.