The Seventh Court of Appeals affirmed no-evidence summary judgment against homebuyers who contracted for a $600,000 custom home, holding that their failure to respond to the builder’s evidentiary objections in the trial court forfeited those challenges on appeal under the preservation rule — leaving them without sufficient evidence to withstand summary judgment on any claim.
The Seventh Court of Appeals reversed a post-answer default judgment in a divorce case, holding that a pro se defendant received no notice of the trial setting after her attorneys withdrew without serving her by certified mail as required by Rule 10, and that subsequent electronic-only service failed to comply with the trial court’s own notice order and could not trigger the Rule 21a presumption of receipt.
The Seventh Court of Appeals held that a California company’s domestication of a default judgment in Texas does not confer specific personal jurisdiction for counterclaims arising from pre-domestication California conduct, and that remote employment of a Texas resident does not establish general jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant.