The suit was brought in North Carolina state court by the parents of two teenage boys who died when a bus carrying their soccer team overturned on a road outside Paris, France. The parents asked for wrongful-death damages in the Superior Court of Onslow County, N.C., blaming the accident on a tire that failed when its plies separated. The parents’ suit alleged negligence in the design, construction, testing and inspection of the tire.
The Goodyear subsidiaries moved to dismiss the claims against them for lack of personal jurisdiction. The trial court and the North Carolina Court of Appeals both declined to dismiss the case, finding that the subsidiaries’ business activities had reached the state through “the stream of commerce.” That notion did not pass muster with the high court on Monday.
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