Baragona v. KUWAIT GULF LINK TRANSPORT CO.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that proper service of process is one of the components of personal jurisdiction
• “A defendant normally . . . waives a personal jurisdiction defense if he or she has entered an appearance.”
• hold- ing that defendants had not waived personal jurisdiction defense to default judgment despite allegations of defen- dants’ “’lawyerly gamesmanship’ in ignoring valid service, retaining counsel in the United States, [and] monitoring court proceedings”
• “[A] defendant is always free to ignore the judicial proceedings, risk a default judgment, and then challenge that judgment on jurisdictional grounds in a collateral proceeding.”
• “A defendant normally . . . waives a personal jurisdiction defense if he or she has entered an appearance or was involved in overt wrongdoing to deceive the court and avoid service of process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).