Legal Opinion
MetalForming, Inc. v. Schechtl Maschinenbau Gmbh
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 30, 2019No. 18-1550PPublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Stephen Knox's hand was badly injured at his work at Cape Cod Copper (CCC) in October 2016 when he operated a machine that was manufactured by defendant Schechtl Maschinenbau GmbH, a German company. The machine had been sold to CCC by defendant MetalForming, Inc., an American company located in Georgia and Schechtl's U.S. distributor.
The question on appeal is whether there is personal jurisdiction over Schechtl, named as a defendant by Knox and as a cross-claim defendant by MetalForming. The district court dismissed the claims against Schechtl, finding that Schechtl had…
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