GLOBAL COMMODITIES TRADING GROUP, INC.; INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BENEFICIO DE ARROZ CHOLOMA, S.A., a Honduran Company; SADY FARID ANDONIE REYES; JOYCE MARY JARUFE DOX, AKA Joyce Jarufe De Andonie, Defendants-Appellees., 972 F.3d 1101

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HOLDINGS: [1]-In an action brought by a California corporation, the district court had personal jurisdiction over defendant Honduran corporation, pursuant to Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 410.10, because it maintained numerous contacts with California during the course of its years-long business relationship with the California corporation. Those contacts gave rise to the dispute, and it was reasonable for the Honduran corporation to expect that it would be haled into court in California to fulfill its obligations and to account for harm it foreseeably caused there; [2]-The contacts of the Honduran corporation's officers were sufficient to support the exercise of specific jurisdiction over them because, in part, they met with the California corporation's employees in the forum state to negotiate the commodities transactions at issue in the suit.