( July 13, 2026, 10:20 AM EDT) -- HOUSTON — A Texas appellate court reversed a trial court's denial of the special appearance of seven nonresident defendants in a dispute over an oil and gas development agreement, holding that the forum selection clause did not provide a basis for exercising personal jurisdiction over the nonsignatories because the plaintiff failed to establish that the contract's corporate signatory was the alter ego of one defendant or that reverse piercing extended the clause to the remaining corporate defendants....