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DENT v. CUNNINGHAM

No. 85-5487.

786 F.2d 173 (1986)

Jo Carolyn DENT & James A. Dent, Sr. v. Josephine CUNNINGHAM & General Motors Corp., a corporation of the State of Delaware. Appeal of Jo Carolyn DENT and James A. Dent, Sr.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLemore and McElroy, Paul D. McLemore (Argued), Trenton, N.J., for appellants.

Lenox, Giordano, Devlin, Delehey & Socey, George Wilgus, III (Argued), Lawrenceville, N.J., for appellee General Motors Corp.

Lewis, Siegel & Wood, Arthur Z. Charsinsky, Thomas E. Brown (Argued), Trenton, N.J., for appellee Josephine Cunningham.

Before ALDISERT, Chief Judge, HUNTER, Circuit Judge, and POLLAK, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Chief Judge.

In this diversity case we must determine whether the district court properly applied the law of personal jurisdiction and the New Jersey borrowing rule for statutes of limitations. We determine the district court correctly found that it lacked personal jurisdiction over defendant Cunningham, and affirm its dismissal of that portion of the complaint. However, because we hold that the court incorrectly applied the...

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