David Hough D/b/a Hough Oilfield Service, Appellee v. Daniel Leonard, Harold E. Burke, and David McMillan, Appellants

Summary

The court held that Oklahoma properly exercised personal jurisdiction over the three Texas defendants because their purposeful Oklahoma contacts, viewed in their totality, included negotiating and entering a services contract with an Oklahoma resident and seeking services from Oklahoma businesses. The court also revised its certiorari procedures so that, when an intermediate appellate court has not decided properly preserved and briefed issues, those issues may be addressed or remanded after the intermediate decision is vacated without requiring the prevailing party below to file a certiorari petition. The opinion vacated the Court of Appeals decision and remanded for consideration of the jury-instruction issues and related matters. The separate writing disagreed with the jurisdiction holding and, in part, with the certiorari-rule revision, advocating a narrower review limited to issues properly presented on certiorari.