Waterman Steamship Corp. v. Ruiz

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[a]lthough we consider registering to do business in Texas and maintaining a registered agent in Texas in undertaking a minimum contacts analysis,” such factors “are not dispositive”
• stating that “[a]lthough we consider registering to do business in Texas and maintaining a registered agent in Texas in undertaking a minimum contacts analysis,” such factors “are not dispositive”
• holding that “even if Waterman and Maersk waiver their objections to personal jurisdiction in [the first] case . . . any waiver in the [second] case was extinguished by the nonsuit and cannot operate as a basis for denying Waterman’s and Maersk’s special appearances in [the second] case.”
• 18 port calls over a seven- year period “is better characterized as sporadic rather than ‘continuous and systematic’ contacts”
• [V]oluntarily filing suit in a 5 particular jurisdiction is purposeful availment of the jurisdiction’s facilities and can subject the party to personal jurisdiction in another lawsuit only when the lawsuits arise from the same general transaction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).