Court Opinion

ID: 9580584
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:06:25.950752+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:22.732746
License: Public Domain

Bussey, Justice
(concurring) :
I concur in the result reached by Mr. Justice Littlejohn in his opinion. In Triplett v. R. M. Wade and Company (1973), 261 S. C. 419, 200 S. E. (2d) 375, in holding a foreign corporation amenable to the process of this State, we noted the clear judicial and legislative trend toward a broadened, liberal concept of what constitutes transacting business in the State of South Carolina as a basis for jurisdiction of a foreign corporation. In Thompson v. Hofmann, S. C., 210 S. E. (2d) 461, filed December 4, 1974, we upheld the constitutionality of sections 10.2-801 through 10.2-809, 1962 Code of Laws (Supp. 1973); Act No. 1065, 54 Stat. 4027 (1966), as reenacted by Act No. 1343, 57 Stat. 2518 (1972). It seems clear to me that by virtue of these code sections alone, and without reference to any of our prior decisions construing and applying earlier long-arm statutes, the lower court properly held the appellant to be, under the facts of this case, subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of South Carolina.
Lewis, J., and Ness, Acting Associate Judge, concur.