Legal Opinion
Max Daetwyler Corp., a New York Corporation v. R. Meyer, a West German Corporation. Appeal of Rolf Meyer
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 18, 1985No. 84-1024PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal comes to us as a certified question pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). We are asked to decide whether personal jurisdiction over an alien defendant, who is being sued on a claim arising under federal law, may be founded on the alien’s aggregated contacts with the United States, regardless of the sufficiency of his contacts with the state in which the district court sits.
We hold that in the absence of a governing federal statute providing for nationwide service of process, in personam jurisdiction may not rest upon an alien’s aggregated…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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