OPINION AND ORDER
Stеphanie Aylstoek, a 14-year-old girl, drowned in a tub shower while she was a patient in the defendant Rochester Methodist Hospital (Hospital) under the care of Mayo Foundation (Mayo). This action charging negligence on the part of Hospital аnd Mayo was filed in the state courts in Montana and removed to this court. Defendants have moved to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction оver the person. The court stayed discovery except as it related to jurisdiction. 1 The parties took depositions and presented evidence in open court on the problem of jurisdiction.
From the evidence it appears thаt Mayo Foundation is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Minnesota to engage in the business of mediсal treatment and research. It is basically the successor to the Mayo Clinic established by Drs. Charles and William Mayo. The doctors comprising the working staff of the foundation are employees. The doctors and all of the physical facilities оf the clinic are located at Rochester, Minnesota, and all of Mayo business is done there.
The defendant Hospital is also a nonprofit Minnesota corporation doing all of its business in Rochester. Actually, although the Hospital is a separate legal entity, its sole function is to serve the Mayo patients because it has a closed staff comprised еxclusively of Mayo doctors and accepts only Mayo patients.
Mayo treats and Hospital admits patients from all over the world, including Montana, but neither Mayo nor Hospital have any physical facilities or personnel in Montana. Exсept under the kind of unusual circumstances found here, the only normal connection of Mayo or Hospital with Montana wоuld be in the answering of inquiries and the making of hospital and doctor appointments for those residents of Montana who wish to be treated by Mayo in Rochester.
Dr. M. R. Wilson was, in December 1969, the chief of the Adolescent Psychiatric Unit at Mayo and a membеr of the staff of Hospital. In that month Dr. Wilson was advised that his mother was suffering from terminal cancer. He secured an emergency leave and came to Helena, Montana, to be with his mother. While in Helena he established an office in St. Peter’s Cathedral. From the office he communicated with Mayo about his patients in Rochester and worked on a paper which he was authoring.
Dr. Wilson’s business contacts with Montana during his stay in Helena were these: A Dr. Burgess had at that time a patient, Stephanie Aylstoek, a disturbed child. Dr. Burgess was the physician attending Dr. Wilson’s mother. Knowing that Dr. Wilson was a Mayo man and a psychiatrist, Dr. Burgess asked Dr. Wilson if he wоuld see the Aylstocks about their problem. Dr. Wilson consented and Dr. Burgess made the appointment. During the appointment Dr. Wilson intеrviewed Mr. and Mrs. Ayl *562 stock and Stephanie. It is apparent from the evidence and Dr. Wilson’s report to Dr. Burgess that these interviews were sufficient in depth to substitute for the interviews which would normally have been conducted of all three of the Aylstocks at Mayo in Rochester as a condition of Stephanie’s being admitted as a patient in the Psychiatric Unit. During the course of the interviеw Dr. Wilson told the Aylstocks of the facilities at Mayó and recommended that Stephanie be hospitalized there or in some similar place. Later Dr. Larson, a psychiatrist who had treated Stephanie, called upon Dr. Wilson in his office and they discussеd Stephanie and her problems. The Aylstocks were advised that if Stephanie should become a candidate for admission to Mayo the parents should write to Dr. Wilson. Dr. Wilson by letter advised Dr. Burgess that a normal fee for the interview would be $75.00 to $100.00 and suggested this should be collected by Dr. Burgess and used for Dr. Wilson’s purposes.
Since no tort action accrued in Montana, jurisdiction under Montаna’s Long Arm Rule must be found und^r Rule 4, subd. B(l) (a) Mont.R.Civ.P. which provides jurisdiction where the claim for relief arises out of the transaction by a defеndant of any business in the state.
It is not enough, however, that the conduct giving rise to the litigation fell within the exterior boundaries of the jurisdictional statute for it must also meet the “minimal contacts” rule of Hanson v. Denckla,
It is sought to make Mayo and Hospital (which is even more remote) come to Montana to defend a tort action which occurred in Minnesota. Mayo and Hospital do their businеss exclusively in Rochester, neither had ever solicited business in Montana, and théy did not send Dr. Wilson into Montana. While Dr. Wilson did go far enough to establish that Stephanie was a proper candidate for the Mayo Psychiatric Unit, it was contemplated by all that Stеphanie would be accepted as a patient and admitted to the Hospital in Minnesota and that all of the services would be rendered there. This is not the case in which a foreign corporation deliberately engages in a poliсy which is intended to put so much of its product into the state as the market will absorb. 4
In this case Dr. Wilson was in Montana for purely pеrsonal reasons. He sought no business — he was sought out. The interviews were had and the advice given for the convenience of plaintiff, not Mayo or Hospital. Under these circumstances and on the basis of one isolated act, to subject Mayо to the jurisdiction of Montana would not be reasonable.
It would be even more unreasonable to submit Hospital to the jurisdiction of Montana. It is inconceivable that a doctor member of a hospital staff who is not shown to have any connection with the business management of the hospital corporation and no actual authority would have an implied authоrity to do acts in a foreign state which would subject the hospital corporation to the jurisdiction of that foreign state.
It is ordered that this action be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
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