Bautista v. Trinidad Drilling Ltd.

This is an interlocutory appeal' from a trial court’s order in a wrongful-death action; granting a special appearance filed by appellee Trinidad Drilling Limited, a Canadian corporation. The decedent, Nabor Alvarado, was employed by an indirect subsidiary of Trinidad Drilling Limited, and that entity is a co-defendant in the ongoing case, along with additional code-fendant ■ manufacturers of1 drilling rig equipment sued on products liability and negligence theories.

Because the appellee satisfied its burden to negate all alleged bases of personal jurisdiction over it, we affirm the…