JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes

— In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under Ga. L. 1946, p. 687, § 2 and former Code Section 14-2-60, which were repealed by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1, effective July 1, 1989, are included in the annotations for this Code section. Personal jurisdiction of Georgia courts over a foreign corporation is not secured by personal service on the defendant’s president while that corporate officer is sojourning in Georgia, whether the officer came voluntarily or was lured into the state under false pretenses. Lamex, Inc. v. Sterling Extruder Corp., 109 Ga. App. 92, 135 S.E.2d 445 (1964), commented on in 2 Ga. St. B.J. 127 (1965) (decided under former Ga. L. 1946, p. 687, § 2). Personal judgment against foreign corporation. — It is essential to a legal rendition of a personal judgment against a foreign corporation otherwise than by its voluntary appearance that the corporation be doing business within this state in such a manner and to such an extent as to warrant the inference that it is present in the state. Lamex, Inc. v. Sterling Extruder Corp., 109 Ga. App. 92, 135 S.E.2d 445 (1964), commented on in 2 Ga. St. B.J. 127 (1965) (decided under former Ga. L. 1946, p. 687, § 2). Obligation to determine where venue existed. — Although venue did not lie in the county where an individual filed a negligence action and a corporation’s registered agent was not located in the same county as the corporation’s principal office, the trial court could not simply deny the corporation’s and its insurer’s Ga. Unif. Super. Ct. R. 19.1(B) motion to transfer; it was obligated by O.C.G.A. §§ 14-2-501, 14-2-510(b), and 14-2-1622(a)(2) to determine the county or counties in which venue properly lay. Coastal Transp., Inc. v. Tillery, 270 Ga. App. 135, 605 S.E.2d 865 (2004). Service of process held sufficient. — Because a corporation failed in its burden of showing that the person who actually received service of process was not authorized to accept service on behalf of its registered agent, the service was properly found to be sufficient. Thus, the trial court was not required to dismiss the action based on a lack of sufficient service of process. Holmes & Co. v. Carlisle, 289 Ga. App. 619, 658 S.E.2d 185 (2008). Service of process upon registered agent of corporation. — In five consolidated aviation wrongful death cases and one aviation property case, the trial court properly denied the motion to dismiss filed by an out-of-state damper part seller on the ground of insufficient service of process as personal service upon the seller’s registered agent was appropriate under both its State of Delaware and under Georgia law. Vibratech, Inc. v. Frost, 291 Ga. App. 133, 661 S.E.2d 185 (2008). Cited in Saint Francis Hosp. v. Dion, 123 Ga. App. 360, 181 S.E.2d 72 (1971); In re Carmichael Enters., Inc., 334 F. Supp. 94 (N.D. Ga. 1971); Hallmark Properties, Inc. v. Slater, 229 Ga. 432, 192 S.E.2d 157 (1972); Lukas v. Pittman Hwy. Contracting Co., 134 Ga. App. 305, 214 S.E.2d 398 (1975); S. Donald Norton Properties, Inc. v. Triangle Pac., Inc., 253 Ga. 761, 325 S.E.2d 160 (1985); Ticor Constr. Co. v. Brown, 255 Ga. 547, 340 S.E.2d 923 (1986).