Opinion ID: 3045474
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Text: This matter comes on before this Court on an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, entered on April 30, 2008, and made final by an order entered on May 27, 2008: (1) granting a motion by appellee Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (“Pilatus”)1 to dismiss it as a defendant for lack of personal jurisdiction, and (2) denying appellants’ motion to transfer the action to the United States District Court for the District of Colorado pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631. D’Jamoos v. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd., No. 07-1153, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35181 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 30, 2008). For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the order of the District Court to the extent that it held that it did not have jurisdiction over Pilatus, but will vacate the order of the District Court to the extent that it denied the motion to transfer the action to Colorado 1 Pilatus is a single entity which appellants sued in the District Court under both its English and German names (Pilatus Aircraft, Ltd. and Pilatus Flugzeugweke Aktiengesellschaft). 4 and will remand the case to the District Court for further proceedings.