Legal Opinion
Venona Lee Childs Farnham v. Bristow Helicopters, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 15, 1985No. 84-3866PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
We determine today that Louisiana courts will insist upon a nexus between business transacted in the state and an asserted claim as a prerequisite to the exercise of in personam jurisdiction under that state’s long-arni statute.
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Bristow Helicopters, Limited, is a corporation organized under the laws of the United Kingdom. P.T. Masayu Helicopters is an Indonesian corporation. Bristow Helicopters, Inc., is a Delaware corporation. The parties agreed below that Masayu is the subsidiary of Bristow Limited under the laws of the United Kingdom; that…
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