Last July, Bexis blogged about two inconsistent personal jurisdiction rulings in talc litigation. Those rulings created a personal jurisdiction split between a Missouri court and the talc MDL court on whether non-Missouri plaintiffs could sue a non-Missouri defendant in Missouri even if those plaintiffs did not use the product or suffer an injury in
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Hoosier Daddy: Personal Jurisdiction Edition
We’ve all seen lists of so-called hellhole jurisdictions — court systems that treat corporate defendants brutally. What about a list of the places where corporations get a fair shake? Indiana would be on that list. Jurors in the Hoosier State don’t casually toss around multimillion dollar verdicts. Further, both federal and state judges in Indiana…
M.D. Georgia Exercises Personal Jurisdiction over Japanese Company Based on Activities of U.S. Distributor
We often say, as we said last week, that this blog is not designed to do plaintiffs’ work for them. Thus, we are a heckuva lot more likely to trumpet pro-defense rulings than wrong ones. Still, it is important to know the problem areas out there, and today’s case displays one of them. It…
New York Holds that Registration to do Business does not Constitute Consent to General Personal Jurisdiction
D.Utah Rejects Personal Jurisdiction over Parent Company; Trims Claims Against Subsidiary
Don’t stop us if you’ve heard this before, because you have. A plaintiff brings an lawsuit over injuries allegedly from a medical device, sues not only the company that made and marketed the device but also a parent company that did not make or market the device, said parent moves for dismissal for want…
A Second Lipitor Cert Petition, This Time Raising Personal Jurisdiction
California courts continue to find ways to exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants, even when there is little or no dispute that the Constitution and the United States Supreme Court’s opinion in Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court do not permit it. “Resistance” is probably too strong a word, insofar as it calls up images…
Hip Hip Hurray for D.Utah Rulings in Hip Implant Case
Miami Nice Personal Jurisdiction Decision
“Alter Ego” Allegations Aren’t Enough For Personal Jurisdiction
A federal court in Utah ruled the other day that it had no personal jurisdiction over a corporate parent, even though the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant subsidiary was the “alter ego” of its owner. We read the order with great interest for a couple of reasons. First, one of our first assignments out of…
New Philly Opinion Rejects Personal Jurisdiction Via Corporate Registration Consent
Not so long ago the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas emitted a malodorous opinion exercising personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation because one of its materials suppliers was in Pennsylvania, even though the quality of that supplied material seemed to have nothing much to do with the injury, which occurred outside Pennsylvania. That opinion seems…