IMO INDUSTRIES, INC. v. KIEKERT AG

No. 97-5356.

155 F.3d 254 (1998)

IMO INDUSTRIES, INC., Appellant, v. KIEKERT AG, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Sugarman (Argued), Gerald A. Stein, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York City; Gerald Krovatin, Arseneault & Krovatin, Chatham, NJ, for Appellant IMO Industries.

Peter Barnes (Argued), Franz M. Oppenheimer, Barbara M. Tapscott, Swidler & Berlin, Chartered, Washington, DC; Douglas S. Eakeley, Neil P. Horne, Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, A Professional Corporation, Roseland, NJ, for Appellee Kiekert AG.

Before: BECKER, STAPLETON, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Chief Judge.

This is a long arm service of process case which requires us, for the first time, to apply the Supreme Court's decision in Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804 (1984), to a business tort. It comes before us on the appeal of the plaintiff, Imo Industries Inc. ("Imo"), a multinational corporation with its principal place of business in New Jersey, from...

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