State ex rel. Cedar Crest Apartments, LLC and Peterson Properties, Inc. d/b/a The Peterson Companies, Relators Missouri Cases

Lincoln Rene Aguiriano Martinez filed a personal injury lawsuit in Jackson County, Missouri, against Kansas business entities Cedar Crest Apartments, LLC and Peterson Properties, Inc., alleging injuries sustained at a Kansas apartment complex. The Relators sought a writ of prohibition after the circuit court denied their motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The Missouri Supreme Court made the preliminary writ of prohibition permanent, holding that the Relators' contacts with Missouri were insufficient to establish either general or specific personal jurisdiction, and declining to impute the Missouri contacts of a related Missouri corporation to the Relators.