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DICKSON MARINE INC. v. PANALPINA, INC.

No. 97-30872.

179 F.3d 331 (1999)

DICKSON MARINE INCORPORATED; Dickson GMP International, Incorporated; Power Offshore Services Incorporated; Power Well Service No. 4, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PANALPINA, INC.; Panalpina New Orleans; Panalpina Port Gentil; Air Sea Broker, A.G.; Air Sea Broker, S.A.; Air Sea Broker, Ltd.; SATRAM; SEMTS; and L'Union des Assurances de Paris, (UAP), Defendants, and Air Sea Broker, Ltd. and Panalpina Transports Mondiaux Gabon S.A., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Sinnott Bland, King, LeBlanc & Bland, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Andrew Struben deKlerk, Joseph Dwight LeBlanc, III, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before DeMOSS, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

The district court dismissed the Louisiana plaintiffs' actions against two foreign corporate subsidiaries of a multinational corporation on grounds of lack of personal jurisdiction in Louisiana as to one defendant and forum non conveniens as to the other. The Plaintiff argues that Louisiana is the proper forum for the actions because of an agency relationship or a lack of separate corporate identity between the corporations. For essentially...

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