Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plaintiff had waived an argument by which it attempted to salvage personal jurisdiction on appeal because it had not raised the point in the lower court
• holding that a defendant need not have a physical presence in the forum and stating that the test \focuses instead upon whether the defendant attempted to participate in the commonwealth's economic life\
• stating that the same factors are relevant to the two inquiries in a federal question context
• requiring proof of lack of corporate independence, fraudulent intent and manifest injustice before the corporate unit will be ignored
• discussing personal jurisdiction in the context of dispute involving workers’ claims to benefits pursuant to Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
• noting the “conspicuous lack of support in the case law for transplanting this theory from the liability context to the jurisdictional context”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).