Legal Opinion
Douglas J. MacGinnitie v. Hobbs Group LLC
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 11, 2005No. 04-15675PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
In this case involving restrictive covenants in an employment contract, we decide two questions. In a matter of first impression for our court, we hold that our “total activities” test for a corporation’s principal place of business for diversity jurisdiction purposes applies to determine the citizenship of a defendant corporation which once operated in the same state as the plaintiff but has since been purchased by and integrated into an out-of-state corporation as a holding company. We further conclude that because the defendant corporation’s principal place of…
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