Civil Procedure Legal question

The Answer should clearly identify each IRAC component

Please use Personal Jurisdiction rules for your answer

*Review (Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the federal courts) if needed

*Review (Long-Arm Statutes, as a restraint on Jurisdiction) if needed

*Review (Venue) if needed

Please see the case (Gibbons V Brown)

Please see the case (Thompson v Greyhound Lines, Inc)

Please see the case (Piper Aircraft V Rayno)

Question 1

Grant, who lives in the Northern District of Ohio, sues Lee, who lives in the Eastern District of Virginia and has his architectural office there, for breach of a contract to design a building. Grant claims that Lee agreed, after extensive negotiations in the Northern District of Ohio, to design a building to be built in Nashville, in the Middle District of Tennessee. Subsequently, however, Lee refused to follow through on the contract.

This question has five parts. First, provide the venue rule. Then, answer: in which of the following districts would venue be proper?

1. The Eastern District of Virginia?
2. The Western District of Virginia?
3. The Middle District of Tennessee?
4. The Northern District of Ohio?