Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co. v. Curtis & Carhart, Inc.

(after stating the facts as above). This suit began as an attempt by the Wisconsin plaintiff to sue its Wisconsin neighbor in the city of New York; the bill alleging that the defendants “and each of them” had within the Southern district of New York “jointly and severally unlawfully and wrongfully made, used, and sold” infringing switches.

As against the Wisconsin defendant the effort failed in limine, because that corporation had no “regular and established place of business” within the district. It had not even an agency therein, and the reception and even the solicitation by Curtis &…