Delagi v. Volkswagenwerk AG of Wolfsburg

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• advertising is no more than solicitation, which is insufficient to establish doing business
• dictum that control over agent-subsidiary must be such as to render it a mere department of parent
• “[n]or is there any basis for claims against [the parent company,] as plaintiff has merely demonstrated that a parent-subsidiary relationship exists”
• “The nature of the agency relationship was clear ... since the New York agent was authorized to make final reservations.”
• “the affiliate relationship ... was significant only as it gave rise to an inference of an agency relationship”
• “[M]ere sales of a mánufacturers product in New York, however substantial, have never made the foreign corporation manufacturer amenable to suit in this jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).