1 8 6 [259 A. V. SHANNON v. FIDELITY NATIONAL BANK of West Memphis 75-226 531 S.W. 2d 958 Opinion delivered February 2, 1976 COURTS - PERSONAL JURISDICTION - TRANSACTING I3USINESS WITHIN STATE. - Endorsement in Arkansas of guaranty of payment on the back of a note to an Arkansas bank by a resident of another state constituted transacting business within the state under the long-arm statute which confers personal jurisdiction over a nonresident as to a cause of action arising from his transacting any business within the state. [Ark. Stat. Ann. § 27-2502 (Supp. 1975).] Appeal from Crittenden Circuit Court, Gerald Pearson, Judge; affirmed. Trout!, Aioore & Johnson and Spears & Sloan, for appellant. Skillman, Durrett & Davis, for appellee. GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice. This appeal presents a single question under our "long-arm" statute. In 1972 R. S. Pitts executed a $15,000 promissory note to the plaintiff-appellee, Fidelity National Bank of West Memphis, Arkan-sas. The appellant Shannon, a resident of Tennessee, came to the bank and endorsed a guaranty of payment on the back of the note. Pitts defaulted and went bankrupt. Shannon, upon being sued in Arkansas, appeared specially and contended that he was not subject to personal jurisdiction here. This appeal is from a judgment rejecting that plea and holding Shannon liable upon his guaranty. The judgment is correct. The long-arm statute confers personal jurisdiction over a nonresident as to a cause of action arising from his "transacting any business in this State." Ark. Stat. Ann. § 27-2502 (Supp. 1975). In construing the statute in Wichman v. Hughes, 248 Ark. 121, 450 S.W. 2d 294 (1970), we cited a number of cases holding that personal jurisdiction may be sustained on the basis of "a single contractual transaction." To that list may be added Pacer Inter-
ARK.] 187 national Corp. v. Otter Distributing Co., 273 N.Y.S. 2d 829, 51 Misc. 2d 737 (1966), where, as here, the nonresident executed a guaranty within the state. Hence the statute, as we have construed it, confers personal jurisdiction over Shannon, because the bank's cause of action arises from Shannon's having transacted business in Arkansas. Affirmed.
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