PVC Windoors, Inc. v. Babbitbay Beach Construction, N.V.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that shotgun pleadings require the district court to sift through allegations to separate the meritorious claims from the unmeritorious, resulting in a “massive waste of judicial and private resources”
• indicating that a typical shotgun pleading requires the district court to sift through allegations to separate the meritorious claims from the unmeritorious, resulting in a “massive waste of judicial and private resources”
• finding a “typical shotgun pleading” where the last of a complaint’s ten counts “amounts to an amalgamation of all counts”
• finding a “typical shotgun pleading” where the last of a complaint’s ten counts “amounts to an amalgamation of all counts”
• explaining that “[o]nly where the long-arm statute provides jurisdiction do we proceed to the second step” and evaluate due process because “federal courts are duty bound to avoid a constitutional question if answering the question is unnecessary to the adjudication of the claims at hand”
• finding no jurisdiction over Kentucky company that solicited bid in Florida through “telephonic and other electronic means” to perform work at beach resort in St. Maarten and did not set foot in Florida

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).