Any nonresident person, firm, general or limited partnership, or any foreign or other corporation not qualified under the Constitution and laws of this state as to doing business herein, who shall make a contract with a resident of this state to be performed in whole or in part by any party in this state, or who shall commit a tort in whole or in part in this state against a resident or nonresident of this state, or who shall do any business or perform any character of work or service in this state, shall by such act or acts be deemed to be doing business in Mississippi and shall thereby be subjected to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state. Service of summons and process upon the defendant shall be had or made as is provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
Any such cause of action against any such nonresident, in the event of death or inability to act for itself or himself, shall survive against the executor, administrator, receiver, trustee, or any other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident. Service of process or summons may be had or made upon such nonresident executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or any other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident as is provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, and when such process or summons is served, made or had against the nonresident executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident it shall be deemed sufficient service of such summons or process to give any court in this state in which such action may be filed, in accordance with the provisions of the statutes of the State of Mississippi or the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, jurisdiction over the cause of action and over such nonresident executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident insofar as such cause of action is involved.
The provisions of this section shall likewise apply to any person who is a nonresident at the time any action or proceeding is commenced against him even though said person was a resident at the time any action or proceeding accrued against him.
Codes, 1942, §§ 1437, 1438; Laws, 1940, ch. 246; Laws, 1958, ch. 245, § 1; Laws, 1964, ch. 320, § 1; Laws, 1968, ch. 330, § 1; Laws, 1971, ch. 431, § 1; Laws, 1978, ch. 378, § 1; Laws, 1980, ch. 437; Laws, 1991, ch. 573, § 98, eff. 7/1/1991.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
278
cases (
33 in the last 5 years), 1973–2026 · leading case:
McDaniel v. Ritter, 556 So. 2d 303 (Miss. 1989).
McDaniel v. Ritter, 556 So. 2d 303 (Miss. 1989).
· cites it 12× “Miss. Code Ann. § 13-3-57 (Supp. *308 1989).”
Horne v. Mobile Area Water & Sewer Sys., 897 So. 2d 972 (Miss. 2004).
· cites it 10× “Two distinct questions must be addressed. The first question is whether the defendant is amenable to suit here by virtue of the Mississippi long-arm statute, Miss.”
Jones v. Chandler, 592 So. 2d 966 (Miss. 1991).
· cites it 22× “On today's facts, Carl Anthony Jones is on principle amenable to suit here as a matter of this state's positive law. The Chancery Court held Jones amenable to Rule 4, Miss.”
S. Pac. Transp. Co. v. Fox, 609 So. 2d 357 (Miss. 1992).
· cites it 16× “The parties' principal battleground is our most familiar long-arm statute, Miss. Code Ann. § 13-3-57 (Supp. 1988). That statute is an affirmative declaration of conditions upon which non-residents such as Southern Pacific may be held amenable to suit in this state.”
Sorrells v. R & R Custom Coach Works, Inc., 636 So. 2d 668 (Miss. 1994).
· cites it 10× “By our decision today, we reiterate certain limitations placed upon our long-arm statute, Miss. Code Ann. § 13-3-57 (1972), by the Due Process Clause.”
Peterson v. Test Int'l, E.C., 904 F. Supp. 574 (S.D. Miss. 1995).
· cites it 23× “reign or other corporation not qualified under the Constitution and laws of this state as to doing business herein, who shall make a contract with a resident of this state to be performed in whole or in part by any party in this state, or who shall commit a tort in whole or in…”
Knight v. Woodfield, 50 So. 3d 995 (Miss. 2011).
· cites it 8× “This Court must conduct a two-step analysis when determining whether a Mississippi court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant. Horne, 897 So.2d at 976 . First, we must determine whether the nonresident defendant is amenable to suit in Mississippi by…”
Sealy v. Goddard, 910 So. 2d 502 (Miss. 2005).
· cites it 12× “In this case of first impression arising under our long-arm statute, Miss.Code Ann. § 13-3-57 (Rev.2002), Gloria Poche Sealy, Douglas Paul Sealy, Rachel Sealy Kimble and Patrice Sealy Torres ("Sealy heirs") appeal the trial court's denial of their motion to dismiss or in the…”
Arrow Food Distributors, Inc. v. Love, 361 So. 2d 324 (Miss. 1978).
· cites it 8× “Mississippi Code Annotated section 13-3-57 (1972) provides in part: "Any nonresident person, firm, general or limited partnership, or any foreign or other corporation not qualified under the constitution and laws of this state as to doing business herein, who shall make a…”
Pekin Ins. Co. v. Marsha Hinton, 192 So. 3d 966 (Miss. 2016).
· cites it 7× “See Miss.Code Ann. § 13-3-57 (Rev.2012). To support its motion, Pekin attached an affidavit by Tim Manning, one of Pekin’s litigation managers.”
Snavely v. Nordskog Elec. Vehs. \Marketeer\"", 947 F. Supp. 999 (S.D. Miss. 1996).
· cites it 20× “3 The plaintiff further alleges that he effected proper service of process upon the defendants pursuant to the Mississippi long-arm statute, Miss.Code Ann. § 13-3-57 4 (Supp.1993), effective July 1, 1991.”
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