Lyman Steel Corp. v. Ferrostaal Metals Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s subsequent filing of an independent suit in the same forum predicated on the same nucleus of operative fact is sufficient for the court’s exercise of personal jurisdiction in the original action
• “Voluntarily filing a lawsuit ... where the facts similarly arise from the same series of events as another [prior] lawsuit can be deemed another indication of purposeful availment of the forum.”
• where the court found “personal jurisdiction over parent where subsidiaries shared common employees and officers”
• defendant’s subsequent filing of an independent suit in the same forum involving the same underlying transactions was a sufficient predicate for the court’s exercise of in yersonam jurisdiction in the original action
• “Voluntarily filing a lawsuit . . . can be deemed . . . purposeful availment of the forum.”
• “Voluntarily filing a lawsuit ... where the facts similarly arise from the same series of events as another [prior] lawsuit can be deemed another indication of purposeful availment of the forum.”

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