or their guarantors. In order to resolve this issue, a short statement of the facts is necessary. The agency agreements in evidence were signed by Iowa National with Doubletree and Alden Insurance on May 8, 1984, and August 9, 1983, respectively. Under these agreements, the agents were to represent Iowa National in the State of Wyoming. Roger K. Bower and Larry R. Alden, principals in their respective companies, signed the agency agreements as guarantors. These agency agreements remained in force until Iowa National was placed in liquidation on October 10, 1985, under Iowa's "Insurers Supervision, Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act," Iowa Code ch. 507C (1985). At this time, both Doubletree and Alden Insurance were indebted to Iowa National for premiums collected by them.
Any discussion of personal jurisdiction under factsrecord lacks any showing that the defendants "purposefully established" contacts in Iowa. Without a showing that a nonresident defendant affirmatively sought to avail itself of the laws or benefits of the State of Iowa, Doubletree argues, there can be no finding of sufficient minimum contacts.
Hager, understandably, sees the matter of contacts in a different light. As to the individual guarantors, Bower and Alden, he points out they were principal officers in their respective companies and signed the guaranty agreements in order to induce Iowa National to designate the defendant companies as agents. The guarantors and their respective companies signed the agency agreements with Iowa National and therefore created substantial, ongoing connections with the State of Iowa.
Moreover, Iowa National's home office set policies and promulgated rules and regulations which