conceive that Massey did not reasonably foresee that doing business with the Mississippi branch of a Louisiana corporation would result in the use of the mail by either the branch or the home office.


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Further, Baker testified that MBM had other business dealings with UCMM, including loans made by UCMM directly to MBM. One of those loans became central to the government's charge of mail fraud:  the MBM loan for the purchase of computer equipment from M-P Duplicating Systems.  The proceeds of the loan, $61,425.00, were given to Massey by Wages on a check drawn on a Baton Rouge bank from the bank account of United Companies, Inc., located in Baton Rouge.  The check, with United Companies' address in Louisiana clearly appearing on its face, waswas entered, and a hearing was set for a date after the sentencing hearing.  The motion to assess costs was pending when appellants' prison sentences were imposed on September 19.  The government asserts that the date for the costs hearing was set so as to allow proper accounting of the costs of prosecution.  The government also explains that on September 25 it moved to amend the district court's judgment in light of the government's pending motion on costs.  The September 25 motion was made well within the time limits of Rule 9 of the Uniform Local Rules of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, which requires the government to prepare a "judgment within ten days after pronouncement of judgment by