Edmunds

HUFFMAN, Acting P. J.

Petitioners John S. Edmunds, attorney at law, a Hawaii law corporation; his Hawaii law partnership, Edmunds, Verga, Van Etten & O’Brien; and Edmunds as an individual (collectively, Edmunds) bring this petition for writ of mandate to require the superior court to vacate its order denying Edmunds’s motion to quash service of summons and complaint, and enter a new order granting the motion. Edmunds has been sued by Len Ronson, an individual, and his fellow limited partners (collectively, Ronson) in a now-dissolved California limited partnership known as Manchester Hawaii Properties, Ltd. (MHP), on theories of professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, interference with prospective economic advantage and/or contractual relations, and conspiracy, arising out of legal representation Edmunds provided to MHP in Hawaii litigation. Edmunds’s motion to quash was based on the argument that he, as a Hawaii attorney not admitted to practice in California, had represented the partnership before the state courts of Hawaii concerning rights to real estate located in the State of Hawaii, such that sufficient minimum contacts do not exist between…