I have an element 'Contact' i want injected in my RegisterContact class, but the injection isn't working. The component is 'null'.

From the following code snippet, you can see I've called Component.getInstance, which obviously isn't injection, but it's shown that my component is in context and accessible with data.
Can someone provide some guidance please....

I am only just starting off with Seam, so I may be making some rookie mistakes, I just don't know where to look.

@Stateless
@Name("register")

public class RegisterContact implements Register{

        @In
        private Contact contact;

        @PersistenceContext
        private EntityManager em;

        @Logger
        private Log log;

        public String register(){

                contact = (Contact) Component.getInstance("contact");

                List<Contact> existing;

                existing = em.createQuery("select firstname from Contact where firstname=:firstname")
                .setParameter("firstname",contact.getFirstname())
                .getResultList();

                if ( existing.size() == 0 ) {
                        em.persist(contact);
                        return "/registered.xhtml";
                }

                FacesMessages.instance().add("A user with the name #{contact.firstname} already exists");
                return null;

        }

}