Harry C. Steigman Equipment Co. v. Atlantic Hotel Co.

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• holding that plaintiff’s incorporation abroad destroyed diversity jurisdiction in suit against fully foreign Italian defendants even though plaintiff may have had its principal place of business in New Jersey
• relying on Romero v. Int’l Terminal Operating Co., 358 U.S. 354, 381 (1959)
• relying on Romero v. Int’l Terminal Operating Co., 358 U.S. 354, 381 (1959)
• “In an action in which jurisdiction is premised on diversity of citizenship, diversity must exist at the time the action is commenced.”
• “[D]iversity is lacking . . . where on one side there are citizens and aliens and on the opposite side there are only aliens.”
• “For diversity purposes, a corporation is deemed to be a citizen both of the state in which it has its principal place of business and of any state in which it is incorporated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).