Placid Investments, Ltd. v. Girard Trust Bank
Decision Date | 28 October 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 81-1273,81-1273 |
Citation | 689 F.2d 1218 |
Parties | PLACID INVESTMENTS, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GIRARD TRUST BANK, Defendant-Appellee. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
A. B. Conant, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.
Michael W. Stucker, Dallas, Tex., for Jim Fox Enterprises amicus curiae.
Royal H. Brin, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for Air France amicus curiae.
Strasburger & Price, Wilson W. Herndon, Dallas, Tex., Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Raymond W. Midgett, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
(Opinion December 7, 1981, 5th Cir. 1981, 662 F.2d 1176).
Before GEE and RUBIN, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS*, District Judge.
The lengthy pendency of motion for rehearing in this appeal, which we regret, has been occasioned by the progress of another in the Supreme Court of Texas.
Our original opinion was handed down December 7, 1981. 662 F.2d 1176. In it we held, consonant with our precedent of Prejean v. Sonatrach, Inc., 652 F.2d 1260 (5th Cir. 1981), that the Texas long-arm statute was to be applied as written, so as to limit personal jurisdiction to " 'any action ... arising out of (business engaged in within the state.)' " Id. at 1265. Obedient to Prejean 's holding, we said:
The following February 24, a divided Texas Court handed down its opinion in Hall v. Helicol, 25 Tex.Sup.Ct.J. 190 (1982), citing established authority-including ours-on the issue before us: the reach of the Texas long-arm service statute, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, Article 2031b. In the majority opinion appears language indicating a disposition on the part of that court-our master as to the construction to be accorded Texas law-to relax somewhat the rigid requirement of Article 2031b, applied literally by us in Prejean, e.g.:
25 Tex.Sup.Ct.J. at 192. Three dissenting Justices would have gone further. The parties duly called our attention to this development and, considering this shading away from our established rule by a divided Texas court, we awaited the action of that court on rehearing. On July 21, 1982, it came. 1
Sweeping aside many of its established precedents (and ours) and clarifying others, the Texas Court withdrew its former opinion, reversed its judgment, and extended the reach of Article 2031b to the limits of due process. 25 Tex.Sup.Ct.J. 454, 638 S.W.2d 870 (Tex.1982). Representative language is
(In a prior holding) this Court approved the three-prong test set out in O'Brien v. Lanpar Company, 399 S.W.2d 340 (Tex.1966). That three-prong test is:
(1) the nonresident defendant or foreign corporation must purposefully do some act or consummate some transaction in the forum state;
(2) the cause of action must arise from, or be connected with, such act or transaction; and
(3) the assumption of jurisdiction by the forum state must not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice; consideration being given to the quality, nature, and extent of the activity in the forum state, the relative convenience of the parties, the benefits and protection of the laws of the forum state afforded the respective parties, and the basic equities of the situation.
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