PURCHASING POWER, LLC v. BLUESTEM BRANDS

No. 16-11896.

851 F.3d 1218 (2017)

PURCHASING POWER, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BLUESTEM BRANDS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 20, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bernard Harwood, Jr. , Rosen Harwood, PA, TUSCALOOSA, AL, Ashby Kent Fox , Burr & Forman, LLP, Oscar N. Persons , Strickland Brockington Lewis, LLP, ATLANTA, GA, Joseph W. Letzer , Elizabeth Bosquet Shirley , Burr & Forman, LLP, BIRMINGHAM, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kerry L. Bundy , Randall Eugene Kahnke , Charles F. Webber , Katrina M. Gossett , Jeffrey P. Justman , Amanda Jane Rome , Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Audra Ann Dial , George L. Murphy, Jr. , Hillary Dawn Rightler , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP, ATLANTA, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before WILSON and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEW, District Judge.


This case demonstrates the difficulty of applying established diversity jurisdiction principles to 21st-century business organizations. When determining citizenship of the parties for diversity jurisdiction purposes, a limited liability company (LLC) is a citizen of every state that any member is a citizen of. And it is common...

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