Alfred Saylor, Mary L. Saylor, and Julie M. Saylor, a Minor, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Mary L. Saylor v. Walter M. Dyniewski, Sr.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

The Saylors, who reside in Illinois, brought this diversity action in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Walter Dyniewski, an Indiana resident, for injuries they sustained when Dyn-iewski’s and the Saylors’ cars collided at an intersection near Valparaiso, Indiana. The defendant moved to dismiss the suit for lack of personal jurisdiction. Plaintiffs, who were by then precluded from refiling their suit in Indiana where personal jurisdiction over defendant would have been assured, opposed the dismissal motion and sought to have the case…