Taylor v. Shaw & Cannon Co.

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• holding that personal jurisdiction defense, even though raised in the answer sufficiently to avoid waiver under Rule 12(h
• holding that personal jurisdiction defense, even though raised in the answer sufficiently to avoid waiver under Rule 12(h
• concluding that the defendants’ active participation in the litigation for two-and-a-half years by participating in discovery and motions practice constituted a waiver of the personal jurisdiction defense.
• holding that the defendants waived their personal jurisdiction defense where they engaged in lengthy discovery and filed numerous motions over the course of two-and-a-half years without actively contesting personal jurisdiction
• holding that while defendants pled lack of jurisdiction in their answer, defendants had waived the defense by “fully participa[ting] in litigation of the merits for over two-and-a-half years without actively contesting personal jurisdiction.”
• finding that despite raising the defense in its answer, the defendant consented to the court's jurisdiction by failing to argue the point until summary judgment

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