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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

SOUTHERN DIVISION

LAURA MATTHEWS, )

Plaintiff, )

 )

v. )

 )

BROOKSTONE STORES, INC., et al., )

Defendants. )

 ) CIVIL ACTION 05-0369-WS-C

 )

BROOKSTONE STORES, INC., )

Third-Party Plaintiff, )

 )

v. )

 )

D&M SALES, INC., )

Third-Party Defendant. )

ORDER

This matter is before the Court on defendant Christopher Lozzio’s Motion to Dismiss

Plaintiff’s Revised First Amended Class Action Complaint (doc. 58). Lozzio maintains that the

claims against him should be dismissed for, inter alia, want of personal jurisdiction, inasmuch as

he asserts that he lacks sufficient contacts with the State of Alabama to be haled into court in this

forum. In an Order (doc. 66) dated December 22, 2005, the undersigned granted plaintiff’s

request to conduct limited jurisdictional discovery to investigate Lozzio’s contacts with

Alabama. Such jurisdictional discovery having concluded, plaintiff now submits a Response

(doc. 76) to the Motion to Dismiss, stating that she “consents to the dismissal of all claims

against Defendant Lozzio.” (Id., ¶ 1.) Thus, it appears that the parties are in agreement that

personal jurisdiction is lacking with respect to Lozzio, and that he therefore should be released

from this lawsuit without delay.

In light of plaintiff’s concurrence that dismissal of all claims against defendant Lozzio is

appropriate, the Motion to Dismiss (doc. 58) is hereby granted. All claims against defendant

Christopher Lozzio are dismissed without prejudice, and the Clerk’s Office is directed to

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1 The dismissal is without prejudice because it is predicated on lack of personal

jurisdiction, not on the merits. To the extent that plaintiff wishes to file suit against Lozzio in

some other forum where personal jurisdiction would properly lie, nothing in this Order would

preclude her from doing so.

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terminate Lozzio as a party to these proceedings.1

 However, nothing herein dismisses or

otherwise impairs plaintiff’s claims against the remaining defendants, Brookstone Stores, Inc.

and D&M Sales, Inc. This action shall proceed with respect to plaintiff’s claims against those

two remaining defendants, as well as the third-party claims leveled by Brookstone Stores, Inc.

against D&M Sales, Inc.

DONE and ORDERED this 1st day of February, 2006.

s/ WILLIAM H. STEELE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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