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The North Carolina General Assembly has decided to legislate choice of law in commercial transactions. The new statute, enacted in June, is called the "North Carolina Choice of Law and Forum in Business Contracts Act." It will be codified at N.C. Gen. Stat. §1G-1.
The Statute Applies Only To "Business Contracts"
The statute applies only to "business contracts." That term is defined as: "[a] contract or undertaking, contingent or otherwise, entered into primarily for business or commercial purposes." Specifically excluded from that definition are "consumer contract[s] or .
I don’t usually write about decisions from the Delaware Court of Chancery because it’s rare for that Court to even mention North Carolina. But a decision by that Court this week — in 
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals sent a pretty clear message last Tuesday to out of state citizens filing claims for alienation of affection in North Carolina courts. The message was don’t file your lawsuit here, even though North Carolina is one of the few states in the country that hasn’t abolished that tort.
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court delivered two of its most significant opinions on the subject of personal jurisdiction in nearly twenty-five years (since Asahi Metal Ind. Co. v. Superior Court of California, 480 U.S. 102(1987)). The new cases are J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown. (linked below)
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This case from the North Carolina Business Court involves the 
Today, the North Supreme Court made it clear that there can be personal jurisdiction over a corporate officer even if his only contacts with the state were in his capacity as a corporate officer.