The United States courts of appeals in most circuits view Asahi as rejecting the stream of commerce theory. But the Eighth Circuit has embraced it.

“We explained in Barone that the Supreme Court in Asahi split four-to- four on the broad question whether introducing products into the "stream of commerce" satisfies the due process requirement of minimum contacts in a product liability case. Thus, this remains *948 an open question. Moving to a more fact intensive analysis, we acknowledged in Barone that a manufacturer whose product ends up in the forum State on an "attenuated, random, or fortuitous" basis has not purposefully directed its activities at residents of that State. That is the teaching of Burger King, 471 U.S. at 475, 105 S.Ct. 2174, and World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, 444 U.S. 286, 296-97, 100 S.Ct. 559, 62 L.Ed.2d 490 (1980). It was the fact pattern in our post-Asahi cases on which the district court relied, Gould v. P.T. Krakatau Steel, 957 F.2d 573, 576 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 908, 113 S.Ct. 304, 121 L.Ed.2d 227 (1992), and Falkirk Min. Co. v. Japan Steel Works, Ltd., 906 F.2d 369, 375 (8th Cir.1990). But we distinguished those cases in Barone, concluding that, when a foreign manufacturer "pour[s] its products" into a regional distributor with the expectation that the distributor will penetrate a discrete, multi-State trade area, the manufacturer has "purposefully reaped the benefits" of the laws of each State in that trade area for due process purposes. 25 F.3d at 615.

Barone controls the personal jurisdiction issue raised by this appeal. It is true that Synatel is a foreign corporation having no office, agents, employees, or property in the State of Iowa, and that Synatel neither advertises nor directly solicits business in Iowa. Those are facts supporting its motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. But, as Barone illustrates, the absence of this kind of direct marketing presence does not necessarily mean that Synatel has not purposefully marketed the M700 in Iowa. The discovery record reflects that, at the urging of Braime, Synatel designed the M700 for United States markets, particularly the substantial grain elevator market. Synatel agreed to distribute the M700 through a Braime affiliate, 4B. Synatel put its distinctive "Owl" logo and an identifying 4B decal on each M700. Synatel shipped some M700s directly to 4B at the request of Braime, and Synatel employees attended technical support meetings at 4B's facilities in Peoria, Illinois, which is about eighty miles from the Iowa border. Between October 1, 1993, and September 30, 1994, Synatel sold 619 M700s to 4B, 81 of which were resold into Iowa. These are not "attenuated, random, or fortuitous" contacts with the forum State.” Vandelune v. 4B Elevator Components Unlimited, 148 F.3d 943, 947-948 (8th Cir. 1998)