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  "name": "A. V. SHANNON v. FIDELITY NATIONAL BANK of West Memphis",
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      "A. V. SHANNON v. FIDELITY NATIONAL BANK of West Memphis"
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        "text": "George Rose Smith, Justice.\nThis appeal presents a single question under our \u201clong-arm\u201d statute. In 1972 R. S. Pitts executed a $15,000 promissory note to the plaintiffappellee, Fidelity National Bank of West Memphis, Arkansas. The appellant Shannon, a resident of Tennessee, came to the bank and endorsed a guaranty of payment on the back of the note. Pitts defaulted and went bankrupt. Shannon, upon being sued in Arkansas, appeared specially and contended that he was not subject to personal jurisdiction here. This appeal is from a judgment rejecting that plea and holding Shannon liable upon his guaranty.\nThe judgment is correct. The long-arm statute confers personal jurisdiction over a nonresident as to a cause of action arising from his \u201ctransacting any business in this State.\u201d Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 27-2502 (Supp. 1975). In construing the statute in Wichman v. Hughes, 248 Ark. 121, 450 S.W. 2d 294 (1970), we cited a number of cases holding that personal jurisdiction may be sustained on the basis of \u201ca single contractual transaction.\u201d To that list may be added Pacer Inter national Corp. v. Otter Distributing Co., 273 N.Y.S. 2d 829, 51 Misc. 2d 737 (1966), where, as here, the nonresident executed a guaranty within the state. Hence the statute, as we have construed it, confers personal jurisdiction over Shannon, because the bank\u2019s cause of action arises from Shannon\u2019s having transacted business in Arkansas.\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "George Rose Smith, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Troutl, Moore & Johnson and Spears & Sloan, for appellant.",
      "Skillman, Durrett & Davis, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "A. V. SHANNON v. FIDELITY NATIONAL BANK of West Memphis\n75-226\n531 S.W. 2d 958\nOpinion delivered February 2, 1976\nTroutl, Moore & Johnson and Spears & Sloan, for appellant.\nSkillman, Durrett & Davis, for appellee."
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