Grill v. Walt Disney Co.

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• refusing to find personal jurisdiction over World Co. because, under New York law, WDC’s presence does not confer jurisdiction on a subsidiary
• transferring as an alternative to dismissing for lack of personal jurisdiction
• “Disney World Co. [does not] engage[] in activities in New York beyond the ‘mere solicitation’ of business”
• local parent must be “acting as the agent of the subsidiary, or the parent’s control over the subsidiary is such that the subsidiary is merely a department of the parent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).