TMX Finance Holdings, Inc. v. Wellshire Financial Services, LLC D/B/A Loanstart Title Loans D/B/A Moneymax Title Loans and D/B/A Loanmax Meadowwood Financial Services, LLC D/B/A Loanstar Title Loans and D/B/A Moneymax Title Loans And Integrity Texas Funding, LP

OPINION

Harvey Brown, Justice

TMX Finance Holdings, Inc. (TMX-Holdings), an out-of-state holding company, appeals the denial of its special appearance. The trial court denied the special appearance based on its finding that TMX-Holdings was an alter ego of a related entity—also a holding company—that had submitted to the court’s jurisdiction.

In two issues, TMX-Holdings argues that an alter-ego theory cannot support the trial court’s ruling because the plaintiffs failed to allege that theory in their pleadings and, to the extent the plaintiffs are permitted to assert an alter-ego theory, they…