Court Opinion

ID: 9685714
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:57:56.678486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:51.505369
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OXBERGER, Chief Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. I would find the Iowa courts have jurisdiction. Rule 56.2 of the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure is to be interpreted to reach the widest due process parameters of the federal constitution. Hager v. Doubletree, 440 N.W.2d 603, 605 (Iowa 1989).
*240The test under International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316, 66 S.Ct. 154, 158, 90 L.Ed. 95, 102 (1940) is “minimum contacts.”
The contract in this case is an employment placement contract. It is not an employment contract. The sole purpose of the contract at bar is for the Iowa corporation to place the Missouri employer in contact with the prospective employee who was a client of the Iowa corporation. The defendant contacted the Iowa company by phone at its Iowa address.
I would hold the minimum contact requirement was met in this case and that the Iowa court has jurisdiction to hear this dispute.