Legal Opinion
Brown ex rel. Estate of Brown v. Lockheed Martin Corp. ex rel. Martin-Marietta Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 18, 2016No. 14-4083PublishedCited by 322 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNEY, Circuit Judge:
We confront here a nettlesome and increasingly contentious question about the import of a foreign corporation’s registration to conduct business and appointment of an agent for service of process in a state for the exercise of personal jurisdiction by that state’s courts over the registered corporation. Here, the state is Connecticut, and the terms of its registration and appointment statutes are unclear as to whether they purport to confer on the state’s courts the power to exercise general jurisdiction over duly registered foreign corporations. Such jurisdiction would…
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