FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 70
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHNEIDER.
Pre-filed December 1, 1998, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S0574.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 407.820, RSMo 1994, relating to motor vehicle franchise practices, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 407.820, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 407.820, to read as follows:
407.820. Any person who is engaged or engages directly or indirectly in purposeful contacts within the state of Missouri, including contact using the Internet, in connection with the offering, advertising, purchasing, selling, or contracting to purchase or to sell new motor vehicles, or who, being a motor vehicle franchisor, is transacting or transacts any business with a motor vehicle franchisee who maintains a place of business within the state and with whom he has a franchise, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the state of Missouri, upon service of process in accordance with the provisions of section 506.510, RSMo, irrespective of whether such person is a manufacturer, importer, distributor or dealer in new motor vehicles.