Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Robertson-Ceco Corp., United Dominion Industries, Inc.

JOSÉ A CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

We address here, among other things, the limits of a district court’s “general” jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant where federal subject matter jurisdiction is premised solely on diversity of citizenship. In this instance, the plaintiff-appellant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Met Life”) filed suit in Vermont against defendant-appellee Robertson-Ceco Corporation (“Robertson”) — based on alleged acts and omissions unconnected to the State of Vermont — in an apparent attempt to benefit from Vermont’s arguably more generous statute of limitations.…