because the evidence does not show (1) that Flexsys targeted Minnesota consumers for these sales, (2) apart from Lorix’s own estimate, how much, if any, revenue Flexsys indirectly derived from Minnesota consumers as the result of its sales of rubber-processing chemicals to out-of-state tire manufacturers, or (3) that Flexsys used the tire manufacturers as its agents or distributors in Minnesota. Lorix then argues that by having an interactive website, Flexsys had substantial and continuous contact with Minnesota, citing Quality Improvement Consultants, Inc. v. Williams for the proposition that the use of an interactive website has been recognized as a means to purposefully direct activities at Minnesota residents. No. Civ. 02-3994, 2003 WL 543393, *5-*6 (D.Minn. Feb.24, 2003) (<HOLDING>). Flexsys notes, however, that Quality
recognizing that active internet solicitation is a means for establishing personal jurisdiction holding that posting defamatory information on the internet is not sufficient to subject the poster to jurisdiction in each state in which the information is accessed holding that interactive websites that permit users to exchange information with a host computer fall in the middle of the activepassive spectrum of commercial internet activity and may support a finding of personal jurisdiction holding that the accessed computer was protected because defendant admitted the computers were connected to the internet holding interactive website did not create general jurisdiction