First, we apologize to our readers for not publishing this post
earlier. It contains new information that we've known about for
a couple of weeks, but we felt we had to keep it under wraps
temporarily until Bexis filed an amicus curiae brief (last
Friday) in one of the cases we discuss. Just as we don't want
to do the other side's research for them, we likewise don't
want to give them extra time to respond.
Last year, in the wake of two extremely adverse appellate
personal jurisdiction decisions, Hammons v. Ethicon,
Inc., 190 A.3d 1248 (Pa. Super. 2018), and
Webb-Benjamin, LLC v. International Rug Group,
LLC, 192 A.3d 1133 (Pa. Super. 2018), we
wrote a post bemoaning that, on personal jurisdiction issues
– both general jurisdiction and specific jurisdiction –
it looked like Pennsylvania law was "going off the deep
end" in favor of allowing litigation tourism.
