ONEWEST BANK, N.A. v. MELINA

Docket No. 15-3063 August Term, 2015.

827 F.3d 214 (2016)

ONEWEST BANK, N.A., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, v. Robert W. MELINA, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, American Express Centurion Bank, American Express Bank, FSB, Citibank, N.A., William R. Santo, Magaly Bermudez, Louis Bermudez, and Carmen Medina, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Bruk , Law Office of Michael Bruk, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Allison J. Schoenthal , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Nicole E. Schiavo , Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY; Chava Brandriss , Sean Marotta , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, WESLEY, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


Today we join our sister circuits in holding that, for purposes of subject matter jurisdiction, a national bank is a citizen only of the state in which its main office is located.

The facts underlying this case are straightforward. On February 26, 2007, Defendant-Appellant Robert W. Melina ("Melina") obtained and memorialized in a note...

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