Ruth Creech, an Ohio resident, filed an action for malpractice against the City of Faith Hospital of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The claims arose out of injuries suffered while Creech was a patient at the hospital in Tulsa. Creech had heard of it through the Expect a Miracle television program featuring Oral Roberts.
Broadcast nationally, the program invited people to come to the hospital for treatment.
The case was tried in federal court in Ohio.
The court found for Creech. The hospital appealed on the ground that the federal court could not exercise jurisdiction over them under the Ohio long-arm statute. They contended that they did not have sufficient minimum contacts with Ohio to confer jurisdiction. Do you think the court's exercise of jurisdiction reasonable? [Creech v. Roberts, 908 F.2d 75 (6th Cir., 1990)]