Papendick v. Robert Bosch GmbH

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this court had jurisdiction where the defendant “came into the State of Delaware to create . . . a subsidiary corporation for the purpose of implementing [the] contract [at issue]”
• noting that stock ownership of a Delaware subsidiary is not, without more, a sufficient contact for which to establish jurisdiction
• explaining the defendant “incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware a corporation . . . having one of its explicit purposes the function of serving as a vehicle for the [at-issue] acquisition”
• finding due process to be satisfied where the foreign defendant “came into the State of Delaware to create, under the Delaware Corporation Law, a subsidiary corporation for the purpose of implementing” the contract that was at issue in the lawsuit
• contrasting plaintiff “of limited means” with defendant “huge multi-national enterprise”
• jurisdiction upheld when Delaware subsidiary created expressly to implement contested transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).