French nationals who bought a US-based cheese distribution company can’t sue the sellers in Florida courts just because the buyers hired a lawyer based in Miami during negotiations, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.
Providing personal jurisdiction based solely on the location of an agent “would be unfair and unworkable,” Judge Andrew L. Brasher of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said in an opinion affirming a district court’s dismissal of the case.
ECB USA Inc. and Atlantic Ventures Corp. acquired New Jersey-based Schratter Foods Inc. in 2014, after negotiating with officers within the company or its …