Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co

In Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., 342 U.S. 437, 96 L. Ed. 485, 72 S. Ct. 413, 47 Ohio Op. 216, 63 Ohio Law Abs. 146 (1952), the president and general manager of a Philippine mining corporation kept his office and company files in Ohio during the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands. 342 U.S. at 448. The president conducted the corporation's activities from Ohio. He held directors' meetings in Ohio, deposited corporate funds in two Ohio bank accounts, carried on corporate correspondence from his Ohio office, engaged an Ohio office to act as the corporation's transfer agent, and supervised the rehabilitation of the corporation's Philippine properties from Ohio. Id. The foreign corporation, through its president, "had been carrying on in Ohio a continuous and systematic, but limited, part of its general business." Id. at 438. Under these facts, the Supreme Court concluded that the exercise of general jurisdiction by an Ohio court was reasonable. Id.