Court Opinion

ID: 9622382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:16:33.790619+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:16.026630
License: Public Domain

STEWART, Justice,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur with the majority’s analysis regarding Utah’s long-arm statute. I dissent, however, with respect to the majority’s holding that the defendants waived personal jurisdiction by failing to assert lack of personal jurisdiction in federal court. I believe a defendant should be entitled to waive lack of personal jurisdiction in a diversity action in federal court and still assert lack of personal jurisdiction in a.state court, if the matter is remanded by the federal court. Historically, diversity jurisdiction was predicated on giving an out-of-state defendant a choice to offset any bias that might exist in a state court toward such a defendant. Whether sound or not, we still live with that notion.