Product Promotions, Inc. v. Jacques Y. Cousteau

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity case we are asked to gauge the reach of the Texas “long-arm” statute 1 as limited by federal constitutional requirements of due process in order to determine whether the district court properly granted nonresident defendants-appellees’ motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction over the person. According to our calculations the district court’s jurisdictional measurements were accurate as to some of the defendants but inaccurate as to another. We therefore affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.

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