John Buggs v. Celine Ehrnschwender, Alice Wright and Tiffany Wright

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises out of an automobile accident that occurred in Syracuse, New York on February 6, 1988, in which appellant John Buggs was a passenger in a car owned by appellee Alice Wright and driven by appellee Tiffany Wright. Buggs claims he was injured when the Wright automobile collided with an automobile driven by appellee Celine Ehrnschwender. Buggs was a resident of Pennsylvania, and the appellees were residents of New York. Apart from the collision injuring Buggs, the appellees had no pertinent contact with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

On January 23, 1991,…