Court Opinion

ID: 9449165
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:59:42.452458+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:44.633787
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
The question presented by this appeal is whether the appellee, Napco Industries, Inc., an Indiana corporation with its principal place of business in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is “doing business” in the District of Columbia within the intendment of 13 D.C.Code § 103. The facts show generally that Napco is engaged in the business of trading with various foreign governments through their representatives in the District of Columbia and maintains a full-time agent there for this purpose. The alleged tortious breach of contract which is the basis of this action also occurred in the District. Thus Mueller Brass Co. v. Alexander Milburn Co., 80 U.S.App.D.C. 274, 152 F.2d 142 (1945), is distinguishable. Also here, unlike Mueller Brass, the “doing business” is with governments other than our own. Under the eircumstances, we conclude that Napco was properly served in the District of Columbia.
Reversed.