ANDRULONIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-CV-847.

526 F.Supp. 183 (1981)

Joanna ANDRULONIS, Individually, and as Conservator of the Property of Jerome Andrulonis, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Glatt Air Techniques, Inc., Glatt GmbH (Germany), Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Inc., Dale Wurster, Warf Institute, Inc., Raltech Scientific Services, Inc., Ralston Purina Company, Eli Lilly and Company and John L. Thompson and Sons and Company, Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Third Party Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, Third Party Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. New York.

November 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roemer & Featherstonhaugh, Albany, N. Y., for plaintiffs; Dean J. Higgins, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Anderson, Russell, Kill & Olick, P. C., New York City, Paul F. Donahue Associates, Alvin Sabo, Albany, N. Y., for defendant Glatt GmbH (Germany); Irene C. Warshauer, Marcy Louise Kahn, New York City, of counsel.

Carter, Conboy, Bardwell, Case & Blackmore, Albany, N. Y., for defendant Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; Jeffrey J. Tymann, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, Albany, N. Y., for defendants Raltech Scientific Services, Inc. and Ralston Purina Co.; Paul Scanlon, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Maynard, O'Connor & Smith, Schenectady, N. Y., for defendant Warf Institute, Inc.; Richard Gershon, Schenectady, N. Y., of counsel.

Bouck, Holloway & Kiernan, Albany, N. Y., for defendant Dale Wurster; Stephen M. Kiernan, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Ainsworth, Sullivan, Tracy & Knauf, Albany, N. Y., for defendant Eli Lilly and Co. & John L. Thompson & Sons & Co.; Thomas F. Tracy, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Galef & Jacobs, New York City, for defendant Glatt Air Techniques, Inc.; Alan M. Warshauer, Christopher M. Houlihan, New York City.

George H. Lowe, U. S. Atty., Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch, Washington, D. C., for defendant New York State Dept. of Health; William P. Fanciullo, Asst. U. S. Atty., James Tuttle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., M. Faith Burton, of counsel.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

MUNSON, Chief Judge.

This motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction (Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2)) requires this Court to determine the fairness of haling a foreign manufacturer into this forum. Numerous courts have erected verbal tests in attempts to give meaning to this area. After investigating those various superstructures, however, we tackle the core notion of fairness directly, and hold that it is reasonable to exercise...

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