Alpine View Co Ltd v. Atlas Copco AB

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• finding that a magistrate judge's discovery orders \are not final orders under 28 U.S.C. § 1291\
• holding that general jurisdiction did not exist where the defendant occasionally sold products to entities in Texas that used the defendant's products for projects in Texas and the defendant's employees made field visits to Texas between December 1992 and December 1993
• stating that two defendants filed motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction after the case was removed to federal court
• finding that a magistrate judge’s discovery orders “are not final orders under 28 U.S.C. § 1291”
• noting that “a foreign parent corporation is not subject to the jurisdiction of a forum state merely because its subsidiary is present or doing business there . . .”
• choosing to “interpret[] the lack of an explicit statement on the part of the district court as a refusal to overrule the magistrate judge’s [Rule 72(a)] order”

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