Court Opinion

ID: 9664349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:15:10.913556+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:05.063291
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*100GEORGE C. HANKS, JR., Justice,
concurring.
I respectfully concur with the Opinion. While I agree that Michiana has sufficient minimum contacts with the State of Texas to subject it to personal jurisdiction, I do not find Memorial Hosp. Sys. v. Fisher Ins. Agency, Inc., 835 S.W.2d 645 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1992, no writ) to be persuasive on this point.
Holten argues that, under the Fourteenth Court of Appeals’ decision in Memorial Hosp. Sys., we should find that the telephone conversation between Michiana and Holten had a sufficient nexus to Texas and to the alleged cause of action to support personal jurisdiction over Mic-hiana. See id. at 650. In Memorial, a default judgment was entered after the defendant insurance company failed to answer. The trial court granted the insurance company’s motion for new trial, and later granted its special appearance. Memorial appealed both the trial court’s orders granting the special appearance and the motion for new trial — in that sequence. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals addressed the issues in the order presented and held that the trial court erred when it granted the special appearance and erred when it granted the motion for new trial. Because the court held that the motion for new trial was erroneously granted, any discussion relating to the special appearance is merely obiter dictum.
For this reason, I respectfully concur.