Legal Opinion
Mann v. Tom James Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 8, 1992No. 2:92-mc-00388PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
ROBRENO, District Judge.
Is a non-resident defendant subject to personal jurisdiction in Pennsylvania on the basis of allegedly defamatory statements he made, while outside Pennsylvania, during the course of a single unsolicited telephone conversation which emanated from Pennsylvania? I find that, under all the circumstances of this case, to do so would offend due process notions. Therefore, the third-party defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction will be granted. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2).
A. Background
Third-party defendant Nishat Ahmed (“Ahmed”) is a citizen and…
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