Renold Power Transmission Corp. v. Cunningham Bearing Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CONABOY, District Judge.

We consider here Defendant’s motion to dismiss this case for lack of in personam jurisdiction over it 1 or, in the alternative, to transfer this case to the Southern District of Texas. 2 This motion has been briefed and opposed in timely fashion and is now ripe for determination. We shall first decide the jurisdictional issue.

I

Whether this Defendant has the requisite “minimum contacts” 3 with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to justify this Court’s assertion of jurisdiction here must be determined with reference to Pennsylvania’s “long arm” statute…