Arnold v. Arnold Corp.-Printed Communications for Business

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• holding that the proponent of diversity jurisdiction has the “burden of supplying specific factual allegations to support the amount in controversy requirement”
• finding that because plaintiff failed to include an estimate of attorney’s fees on the record, there was no basis for the court to conclude that the amount in controversy requirement had been met
• “[T]he party seeking to invoke jurisdiction . . . may meet [its] burden by . . . submitting affidavits.”
• where claim is not spelled out in the pleadings, court will not consider it in the amount in controversy determination
• where no specific factual allegations were provided, the record did not show “that there [was] any amount in controversy ..., much less one in excess of the ... threshold”
• “[T]he party seeking to invoke jurisdiction . . . may meet [its] burden by . . . submitting affidavits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).