Helen M. Witt, Receiver of Pioneer Finance Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation v. William J. Scully

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

We are to decide whether failing to act is tantamount to acting for purposes of Penn*951sylvania’s long arm statute.1 Defendant is an Ohio resident who was an officer and director of a Pennsylvania corporation. The district court denied his motion to quash service of process, holding that he was amenable to jurisdiction in Pennsylvania in an action alleging his failure to attend directors’ meetings and his failure otherwise to involve himself in the management of the corporation. We reverse.

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Defendant was president and a director of the Pioneer Finance…