Dickson Marine Inc. v. Panalpina, Inc.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

The district court dismissed the Louisiana plaintiffs’ actions against two foreign corporate subsidiaries of a multinational corporation on grounds of lack of personal jurisdiction in Louisiana as to one defendant and forum non conveniens as to the other. The Plaintiff argues that Louisiana is the proper forum for the actions because of an agency relationship or a lack of separate corporate identity between the corporations. For essentially the same reasons assigned by the district court, we affirm the district court’s decision to reject the plaintiffs’ arguments and…