Griffith v. SSC Pueblo Belmont Operating Co.

¶1 This case raises the following question: When may a nonresident parent company be haled into a Colorado court based on the activities of its resident subsidiary? We hold that, to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident parent company, a trial court shall perform the following analysis: First, the trial court shall determine whether it may pierce the corporate veil and impute the.resident subsidiary’s contacts to the nonresident parent company, If the resident subsidiary’s contacts.may be imputed to the nonresident parent company, the court shall analyze all of the nonresident…