Legal Opinion
Donner v. Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 3, 1979No. Civ. A. 78-2895PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.
I. Preliminary Statement
Defendants Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. (“Tams-Witmark”) and Louis H. Aborn (“Aborn”) have moved for dismissal of the complaint as to them for lack of personal jurisdiction and for improper venue. The motion presents several interesting questions of “minimum contacts” analysis under the new Pennsylvania long-arm statute, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5321 et seq., and International Shoe v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 66 S.Ct. 154, 90 L.Ed. 95 (1945), the most significant of which is whether the allegedly tortious acts of the…
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