Jurisdictional challenges by defendants have been on the uptick in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Daimler AG v. Bauman, but defendants in Pennsylvania might have one less jurisdictional argument they can raise following a recent decision from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney recently determined that a company with no business ties to Pennsylvania, other than being registered as a corporation in the state, can be sued here. The defendant, Imerys Talc America, had argued that under the Daimler decision, which said a company could only be subject to general jurisdiction in its home state, it could not be sued in Pennsylvania.
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