1. In GREEN v. ADVANCE ROSS ELECTRONICS CORP., 86 Ill.2d 431, 427 N.E.2d 1203

(1981), Advance Ross, a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Illinois, sued Green for breach of fiduciary duty. Green was a Texas resident who had worked as president of two of plaintiff’s affiliates. All of Green’s responsibilities, including the acts that allegedly injured the corporation, were performed outside Illinois. Advance Ross argued, under the same longarm statute applied in Gray, that although Green committed the tortious acts in Texas, the consequences of those acts took place in Illinois where they diminished the funds of an instate corporation. The Illinois Supreme Court rejected this argument:

* * * [T]his theory opens the gates of long-arm jurisdiction to every Illinois resident who incurs loss as the result of the fraud of a nonresident, no matter how distant the misconduct and circumstances of the loss are from Illinois. A less tenuous and contrived connection between the tortious103act and this State is required to satisfy the statutory provision that its commission be within Illinois.