Opinion ID: 532440
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Forum-Related Activities

Text: 13 Greene's forum-related activities in Montana were sufficient to support jurisdiction in Montana if the exercise of jurisdiction is shown to be reasonable. Concededly Greene did not physically enter Montana to do business with TWC, and the bulk of Greene's contacts with TWC were telephonic. However, it is not necessary that Greene's activities be physically performed in Montana to make the exercise of jurisdiction proper: 14 [j]urisdiction ... may not be avoided merely because the defendant did not physically enter the forum State.... [i]t is an inescapable fact of modern commercial life that a substantial amount of business is transacted solely by mail and wire.... So long as a commercial actor's efforts are purposefully directed toward residents of another State, we have consistently rejected the notion than an absence of physical presence can defeat personal jurisdiction there. 15 Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462, 476 (1985). Greene knew that it had contracted with a Montana corporation, and that the contract would affect Montana. Thus, the main issue remains whether exercise of jurisdiction under these circumstances was reasonable.