Bowers v. Wurzburg

DAVIS, Chief Justice:

In this class action suit against foreign companies and their Texas subsidiary, the appellants, plaintiffs below, argue that the circuit court erred by failing to provide them sufficient time to conduct jurisdictional discovery before dismissing the foreign companies for lack of personal jurisdiction. Due to the complexity of the jurisdictional facts of this case, and the initial showing by the plaintiffs that there is the potential to establish personal jurisdiction over the foreign companies, we find the circuit court erred in failing to permit time for jurisdictional…