
    Jerry L. JOHNSON and Debbie R. Johnson v. Gary BYRD and Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Arkansas, Inc.
    No. 2017-CC-0115
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    2/24/2017
    HUGHES, J., would grant the writ and assigns reasons.
   Hughes, J.,

would grant the writ and assigns reasons.

|,I respectfully dissent and would grant the writ. The defendant did not solicit or conduct business in Louisiana. He did not advertise in Louisiana; his business was known by “word of mouth.” He did not seek the business, it came to him. His posture was passive, not active.

Furthermore, the action involved, a dog bite, has nothing to do with his engine repair business. Had the dog bitten a neighbor, the mailman, or a salesman the result should be the same. Jurisdiction does not constitutionally lie in Louisiana under these facts.  