Legal Opinion
CRI Liquidating Reit, Inc. v. A.F. Evans Co.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided October 30, 1997No. 15506PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JACOBS, Vice Chancellor.
Pending is the defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, or, in the alternative, to dismiss Count III of the Complaint for failure to make a demand. Because the Court grants the defendants’ motion to dismiss on personal jurisdiction grounds, it does not reach the demand question.
The jurisdictional issue arises against the following background: Before September 1, 1988, there was no method for obtaining personal jurisdiction over nonresident general partners of a Delaware limited partnership, other than the procedure prescribed in…
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