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METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. v. ROBERTSON-CECO CORP.

No. 663, Docket 95-7370.

84 F.3d 560 (1996)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROBERTSON-CECO CORP., Defendant-Appellee, UNITED DOMINION INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick E. Gaas, Houston, Texas (J. Mark Brewer, Brewer & Pritchard, P.C., Houston, Texas, David W.M. Conard, Samuel H. Press, Portnow, Little & Cicchetti, P.C., Burlington, Vermont, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael B. Clapp, Burlington, Vermont (Gary T. Carr, Bryan Cave, St. Louis, Missouri, Philip C. Woodward, Shapleigh Smith, Jr., Dinse, Erdmann & Clapp, Burlington, Vermont, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before WINTER, WALKER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

We address here, among other things, the limits of a district court's "general" jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant where federal subject matter jurisdiction is premised solely on diversity of citizenship. In this instance, the plaintiff-appellant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("Met Life") filed suit in Vermont against defendant-appellee Robertson-Ceco Corporation ("Robertson") — based on alleged acts and...

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