Dennis E. Cook and Employers Mutuals Liability Company of Wisconsin, Also Known as Employers Mutuals of Wausau v. Bostitch, Inc.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This action was commenced against Bostitch, Inc. and its subsidiary, Bostitch Eastern, Inc., by service of process upon the subsidiary’s office manager within the territorial limits of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Both defendants are Rhode Island corporations. They moved to quash service for lack of jurisdiction in the court, and plaintiffs cross-moved to take the depositions of the defendants. The court allowed the depositions to be taken. Upon the summons, complaint, motion papers, depositions and oral argument, Judge Abruzzo…