Simmers v. American Cyanamid Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding \a successor company which purchases and manufactures a predecessor's product line cannot avoid the jurisdiction of those forums wherein the product was previously manufactured and distributed\
• holding successor jurisdiction proper in part on ground that it would be “absurd” to deny jurisdiction where “the assets purchased by the successor, at least in part, were derived from the forum”
• “[I]n today’s sophisticated world of corporate takeovers, a corporation[] [that] assumes another’s liabilities . . . considers the possible extent of any liabilities and where those liabilities may exist.”
• “The great weight of persuasive authority permits imputation of a predecessor’s actions upon its successor whenever forum law would hold the successor liable for its predecessor’s actions.” (emphasis added and emphasis in original omitted)
• “In Pennsylvania, it is now the law that when the successor is subject to the liabilities of its predecessor, the acts of a predecessor corporation may be attributed to its successor for the purposes of determining whether jurisdiction is proper.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).