Clay v. Hopperton Nursery, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

In this serious products liability case, the court is called upon to apply principles enunciated in certain recent decisions concerning long-arm jurisdiction.

Background

Plaintiffs bring this action, alleging that they were lessees of a house owned by the defendants Hopperton. Plaintiffs further allege that there were stored in the basement of this leased dwelling several cans of a powerful chemical insecticide labeled Zytox manufactured by the defendant Ferguson Fumigants. This chemical leaked from one canister, plaintiffs claim, with the…