In this Article the following words have the designated meanings:
(1) "Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation, body politic, and any unincorporated association, organization, or society which may sue or be sued under a common name.
(2) "Plaintiff" means the person named as plaintiff in a civil action, and where in this Article acts of the plaintiff are referred to, the reference includes the acts of his agent within the scope of the agent's authority.
(3) "Defendant" means the person named as defendant in a civil action, and where in this Article acts of the defendant are referred to, the reference includes any person's acts for which the defendant is legally responsible. In determining for jurisdictional purposes the defendant's legal responsibility for the acts of another, the substantive liability of the defendant to the plaintiff is irrelevant.
(4) Where jurisdiction of the person is drawn into question in respect to any claim asserted under Rule 14 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, the terms "Plaintiff" and "Defendant" as above defined shall include a third-party plaintiff and a third-party defendant respectively.
(5) "Solicitation" means a request or appeal of any kind, direct or indirect, by oral, written, visual, electronic, or other communication, whether or not the communication originates from outside the State. (1967, c. 954, s. 2; 1993, c. 338.)
Notes of Decisions
Bauer v. Douglas Aquatics, Inc., 698 S.E.2d 757 (N.C. Ct. App. 2010).
· cites it 6× “See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 (3) (2009) (providing that “acts of the defendant” subjecting it to personal jurisdiction “include [] any person’s acts for which the defendant is legally responsible”).”
Lemon v. Combs, 596 S.E.2d 344 (N.C. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 8× “Lemon contends his affidavit and Blige’s interrogatory answers establish grounds for personal jurisdiction pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 1-75.2 (3) and l-75.4(3).”
Woods v. Billy's Auto., 622 S.E.2d 193 (N.C. Ct. App. 2005).
· cites it 6× “” N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 (3) (2004). The term “person” is defined as “any natural person, partnership, corporation, body politic, and any unincorporated association, organization or society which may sue or be sued under a common name.”
Vogel v. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 630 F. Supp. 2d 585 (M.D.N.C. 2008).
· cites it 3× “Trojanowski knew, or should have known, that North Carolina was a likely destination of the medical textbooks, and N.C.G.S. § 1-75.2 makes him personally responsible, from a jurisdictional perspective, for the acts of Defendants Wolters.”
La Familia Cosmovision, Inc. v. the Inspiration Networks, 2014 NCBC 51 (N.C. Bus. Ct. 2014).
· cites it 2× “Defendants essentially ask this Court to hold that although one may sue a corporation under its assumed name, one cannot maintain an action against both a corporation and its assumed name.”
Ponder v. Been (N.C. Ct. App. 2020).
· cites it 9× “2 defines “solicitation” for purposes of jurisdiction as “a request or appeal of any kind, direct or indirect, by oral, written, visual, electronic, or other communication, whether or not the communication originates from outside the State.”
Greenhaus v. Goldstein (N.C. Ct. App. 2026).
· cites it 4× “” N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 (2025) (emphasis supplied).”
Gao v. Sinova Specialties, Inc., 2016 NCBC 102 (N.C. Bus. Ct. 2016).
· cites it 4× “N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 defines “solicitation” as “a request or appeal of any kind, direct or indirect, by oral, written, visual, electronic, or other communication, whether or not the communication originates from outside the State.”
Moore v. Brooks, 2025 NCBC 69 (N.C. Bus. Ct. 2025).
· cites it 2× “65, 76 (2010) (“Where N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 (3) permits the exercise of jurisdiction over a party who is ‘legally responsible’ for certain acts, even if it did not commit them, we conclude that North Carolina’s jurisdiction over Appellant may be premised on either actual or…”
Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Ams. v. Tradewinds Airlines, Inc., 2009 NCBC 12 (N.C. Bus. Ct. 2009).
· cites it 2× “See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 (5) (2007). Within the relevant article of the statute, “‘[s]olicitation’ means a request or appeal of any kind, direct or indirect, by oral, written, visual, electronic, or other communication, whether or not the communication originates from…”
— N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2(3) — 2 cases
Lemon v. Combs, 596 S.E.2d 344 (N.C. Ct. App. 2004).
“Lemon contends his affidavit and Blige’s interrogatory answers establish grounds for personal jurisdiction pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 1-75.2 (3) and l-75.4(3).”
Woods v. Billy's Auto., 622 S.E.2d 193 (N.C. Ct. App. 2005).
“” N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-75.2 (3) (2004). The term “person” is defined as “any natural person, partnership, corporation, body politic, and any unincorporated association, organization or society which may sue or be sued under a common name.”
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