Legal Opinion
Bors v. Johnson & Johnson
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 20, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 16-2866PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
KEARNEY, District Judge
As our Court of Appeals confirmed over twenty-five years ago, companies with no business ties or contacts in Pennsylvania but who choose to register as a foreign corporation in Pennsylvania consent to this Court’s exercise of personal jurisdiction over them. Two years ago, the Supreme Court again evaluated the constitutionally permissible exercise of general and specific personal jurisdiction over defendants with arguably little contact to the forum. The Supreme Court’s 2014 analysis focused on personal jurisdiction absent consent. Its 2014 holdings do not…
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