Kenny v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.

This case presents the recurring problem of solicitation as “doing business.” We plowed the solicitation field in Perkins v. Louisville & N. R. Co., D.C. Cal.1951, 94 F.Supp. 946, and in deciding that the foreign corporation was doing business in California and subj'ect to the jurisdiction of a federal court, we held state law was controlling as to what constitutes “doing business.” But that case was a diversity case, removed from the state court. On removal of a diversity case to a federal court, unless the state court had jurisdiction over the defendant, none…