Mill-Bern Associates, Inc. v. Dallas Semiconductor Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O’TOOLE, District Judge.

Mill-Bern Associates, Inc. (“Mill-Bern”), a Massachusetts corporation, brought this action in the Massachusetts Superior Court against Dallas Semiconductor Corporation (“Dallas”), a Texas corporation, and two individual employees of Dallas: Gregory Cappelli, a resident of New York, and William Galluccio, a resident of Massachusetts. The defendants, commonly represented, answered in the state court, stating in one of their affirma•tive defenses their belief that Galluccio, the Massachusetts resident, had been add ed to the lawsuit for the sole…