Bresler

Michael J. Bresler, M.D., and other plaintiffs appeal from an order quashing service of the summons on defendant-respondent George Stavros, M.D., on the ground of lack of personal jurisdiction. We reverse the order.

Appellants alleged in their complaint that appellant physicians and defendant Dr. Congress owned all the stock in the Foster City Emergency Medical Group, Inc., a California professional corporation. In summer of 1978, appellants entered into an agreement with respondent and the other two defendants for the purchase of appellants’ interests in the corporation; the defendants executed five documents—a contract of sale, a promissory note, an assignment of a lease, an indemnification agreement, and the memorial of an oral understanding between Congress ánd the purchasers—in connection with the contemplated transaction. The complaint alleges the purchasers breached their obligations under these instruments and that defendant Congress conspired with the purchasing defendants to induce appellants to accept a lower purchase price and failed to disclose his understanding with the purchasers that he would continue to retain a one-quarter interest in the…