The Georgia Long Arm Statute did not become effective until 1966, long after the U.S. Supreme Court held constitutional a state statute giving in personam jurisdiction over nonresidents with "certain minimum contacts . . . such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice." International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316 ( 66 S.Ct. 154, 90 LE 95) (1945); Buckhead Doctors' Building v. Oxford Finance, 120 Ga. App. 516 (1) ( 171 S.E.2d 365) (1969). The statute provides that

Bauer International Corp. v. Cagles, 225 Ga. 684 ( 171 S.E.2d 314). See Buckhead Doctors' Bldg. v. Oxford Finance Companies, 120 Ga. App. 516 ( 171 S.E.2d 365); Amos v. Bowers, 121 Ga. App. 801 ( 175 S.E.2d 877). Moreover, the Act is in derogation of common law and must be strictly construed.

Any retroactive application of the long arm statute in this case would work the same alteration in the respective positions of the parties. The case of Focht v. American Cas. Co., 103 Ga. App. 138, supra, has been followed and applied in Buckhead Doctors' Building, Inc. v. Oxford Finance Companies, 120 Ga. App. 516 ( 171 S.E.2d 365), in which latter case certiorari was denied. See 120 Ga. App. 886.

But nevertheless the judgment of the trial court is reversed in accord with the holding in Bauer that the word "nonresident" as used in the "Long Arm Statute" (Ga. L. 1966, p. 343) did not, prior to April 12, 1968, the effective date of the amendment of 1968 (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1419, 1420; Code Ann. § 24-117), authorize service thereunder upon corporations, for that the amendment, by its own terms is not to be given retrospective effect. See also Buckhead Doctors' Bldg., Inc. v. Oxford Finance Companies, Inc., 120 Ga. App. 516 ( 171 S.E.2d 365). It appears that if there is a cause of action here it arose about November 3, 1966, and that this suit is against a corporation. Consequently, defendant's attack upon the service of process under the "Long Arm Statute" and upon the jurisdiction of the court should have been sustained.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as holding that the Georgia Long Arm Statute applied to the cause of action asserted in the present case. See in this connection Buckhead Doctors' Building, Inc. v. Oxford Finance Co., 120 Ga. App. 516. Judgment affirmed.