Kipp v. Ski Enterprise Corporation of Wisconsin, Inc.

Dist. Ct. did not err in dismissing for lack of personal jurisdiction plaintiff’s action against defendant filed in Illinois, alleging that plaintiff sustained personal injuries as he was attempting to board chairlift operated by defendant. Defendant owned and operated ski slopes only in Wisconsin and had its principal place of business in Wisconsin. Moreover, plaintiff did not engage in print or broadcast advertisement in Illinois, and its attendance at one yearly tradeshow in Chicago was insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction where customers could not purchase tickets during trade show, and where plaintiff otherwise had no business office in Illinois. Fact that substantial percentage of defendant’s customers at its ski reports are from Illinois did not require different result.