Burleson v. Coastal Recreation, Inc.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

In this products liability case, the parties have raised not only traditional issues with respect to jury instructions, the interpretation of the Texas Comparative Negligence Statute and other such standard fare, but have presented to the court the novel jurisdictional picture of a winning plaintiff *511seeking to overturn the lower court’s judgment for lack of jurisdiction and two losing defendants attempting mightily to sustain that jurisdiction.

Burleson, a Texas resident, sued Coastal Recreation, Inc., a California corporation, in federal district court to recover for…