222800P.pdf   12/19/2023  Hawkeye Gold, LLC  v.  China National Materials
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-2800
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Contracts. Defendant Sinoma's motion to set aside a default 
   judgment was not a Rule 12 motion, and Sinoma preserved its personal 
   jurisdiction by raising it in answers to plaintiff's complaints filed 
   after the default judgment was set aside for improper service; the 
   district court record was sufficient to require plaintiff to establish 
   personal jurisdiction by a preponderance of the evidence, and it failed to 
   do so; Sinoma was not a party to the contract in question, so it was not 
   bound by the "Consent to Jurisdiction" clause of the contract; Non-Metals, 
   the contracting party, was not an alter-ego for Sinoma and there is no 
   evidence Sinoma had the necessary contacts with Iowa for plaintiff to 
   assert personal jurisdiction over it; the district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in denying plaintiff's Rule 37 motion for sanctions.