Laffey v. Lehigh Valley Dairy Cooperative

JACOBS, President Judge:

This appeal arises from an order of the court below sustaining preliminary objections to service of process on the Baltimore Bank For Cooperatives (the Bank) and quashing the writ to join the Bank as a party. The question presented for our review is whether the Bank’s activities rendered it subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the court below. However, for the reasons that follow, we cannot address the merits of this issue, and must remand the case for development of a record upon which the factual question of jurisdiction may be resolved.

Through its Trustee in…