Opinion ID: 4548417
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Heading: The Location of the Injury

Text: The location of the injury is important. See Jackson v. State St. Bank & Tr. Co., 674 N.E.2d 706, 710 (Ohio Ct. App. 1996) (“A determination of long-arm jurisdiction under [§] 2307.382(A)(4) first entails a finding that the tortious injury occurred in Ohio.”). The complaint, however, is vague on this point. Although it states that the saw “had been purchased in” Ohio, it does not explicitly say Kevin Malone was in Ohio when he suffered his injury. Rexon pointed this out in its motion to dismiss, but the district court did not address it directly. In discussing another point, however, the district court mentioned that “Plaintiff was injured in the forum state,” and its analysis proceeded on that understanding. The Malones insist that was proper, because the place of the injury is a “logical inference” from the other allegations in the complaint. We proceed as the district court did and infer that the injury occurred in Ohio.