Christmas v. Fluker

How courts have described this case

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• holding court could exercise personal jurisdiction over defendant as to state law claims of non-resident plaintiffs which overlapped with and arose out of the federal claims already before the court
• noting that “the due process analysis encompasses the question of state sovereignty,” so “the due process analysis differs fundamentally when a case is pending in federal court and no such concerns are raised”
• holding Bristol-Myers does not preclude federal jurisdiction over out-of-state claims
• rejecting argument that a “car is fit for ordinary use as long as it continues 16 to provide transportation, irrespective of safety concerns.”
• exercising pendent jurisdiction when plaintiffs brought a claim under the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act and declining to address whether Bristol-Myers would apply if jurisdiction had arisen exclusively on the basis of diversity
• “the defect was inherent to the engine design and, therefore, existed at the time of purchase.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).