Paradies v. Travelers Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• exercising personal jurisdiction over foreign corporate defendant that was not “passive purchaser” in contract governed by Pennsylvania law
• Pennsylvania choice of law provision, coupled with other parts of contract, established that defendants could foresee economic impact in Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania choice of law provision, coupled with other parts of contract, established that defendants could foresee economic impact in Pennsylvania
• non-resident defendant not a passive purchaser but actively negotiated with plaintiff; thus no unfairness in exercise of personal jurisdiction over defendant
• non-resident defendant not a passive purchaser but actively negotiated with plaintiff; thus no unfairness in exercise of personal jurisdiction over defendant
• jurisdiction asserted because contract had consequences in the forum state which defendant should have foreseen despite the fact defendant had no offices, property, agents, representatives or employees in the forum state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).