Court Opinion

ID: 9765441
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:02:58.500961+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:09.985854
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WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I join the opinion of the majority as it affirms the trial court’s award of damages and its allowance of testimony by appellee’s expert. I also agree with the majority that Dalton Carpet Finishing Co., Inc. had sufficient contacts with Pennsylvania to render it subject to the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania courts. For reasons stated in the opinion filed in Skinner v. Flymo, Inc., 351 Pa.Super. 234, 505 A.2d 616 (1986), however, I am of the opinion that the standards set forth in Proctor & Swartz, Inc. v. Cleveland Lumber Co., 228 Pa.Super. 12, 323 A.2d 11 (1974), are too rigid and no longer provide a valid test for determining the “mini*310mum contacts” necessary to a court’s exercise of in person-am jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant.1

. The three-pronged test of Proctor & Swartz was criticized in Kingsley & Keith (Canada) Ltd. v. Mercer International Corp., 500 Pa. 371, 374 n. 1, 456 A.2d 1333, 1335 n. 1 (1983) (opinion of Roberts, C.J., in support of affirmance). See also: United Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., 501 Pa. 646, 462 A.2d 1300 (1983).