| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | Mining in the Philippines gets curtailed by WWII. Interim operations, such as they were, took place in OH. There's a dispute over some stock certificates and dividends. |
| Posture: | Suit in OH state courts. |
| Issue: | Can OH entertain this action against a foreign corporation, where the cause of action arose from activities entirely distinct from the corporation activities in OH? |
| Holding: | Yes, they could take or decline jurisdiction. |
| Rule: | Not one really. |
| Reasoning: | There was continuous and systematic supervision of the company's (albeit limited) activities from OH, even though there were no actual activities in OH. |
| Dicta: | Dissent: this is an advisory opinion. |