Botwinick v. Credit Exchange, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• service upon a wholly owned subsidiary corporation held not to constitute service upon the parent corporation
• Pennsylvania could not exercise personal jurisdiction over foreign corporation where subsidiary and parent corporation maintain bona fide separate and distinct corporate existence
• service on Pennsylvania corporation was set aside when plaintiff could not pierce the veil to the real target of plaintiff’s lawsuit, a New York corporation
• New York parent not subject to jurisdiction in Pennsylvania even though its similarly named, wholly owned subsidiary was a Pennsylvania corporation and the two had a close business relationship
• neither similarity of names, total ownership of the stock, nor commonality of leadership “will per se justify a court in piercing the corporate veil if each corporation maintains a bona fide separate and distinct corporate existence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).