The General Contracting & Trading Co., LLC v. Interpole, Inc. v. Transamerican Steamship Corporation, Third-Party

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

We revisit today a shopworn fracas involving the appellant, Transamerican Steamship Corporation (Trasteo), and appel-lee Interpole, Inc. When the litigation first appeared in our venue, we rebuffed Trastco’s efforts to set aside a default judgment which had been entered against it in Interpole’s favor, but remanded the cause for the sole purpose of determining whether the district court, at the time it entered the default judgment, had acquired jurisdiction over Trastco’s corporate persona. General Contracting & Trading Co. v. Interpole, Inc., 899 F.2d 109 (1st Cir.1990)…