Court Opinion

ID: 9693683
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:57:02.005683+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:49.744398
License: Public Domain

DISSENTING OPINION BY
DEL SOLE, P.J.:
¶ 1 I dissent. The Majority bases its analysis on the initial assumption that personal jurisdiction was properly exerted over Appellees in Pennsylvania pursuant to Pennsylvania’s long-arm statute because Appellees were “transacting business in this Commonwealth.” Majority Opinion at 3, footnote 2. Personal jurisdiction is extended in Pennsylvania to any entity which transacts business in the Commonwealth. 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5322(a)(1). Once jurisdiction within the Commonwealth is established, the appropriate venue within the Commonwealth lies in the county where the entity regularly conducts its business. Pa.R.C.P. 2179(a)(2). If, as the Majority assumes, Pennsylvania jurisdiction is proper based on Appellees’ business activities in the Commonwealth, then venue must be proper in any county where that business is regularly conducted.
¶ 2 The record reveals that Appellees’ only business activity in Pennsylvania is advertising and the majority of its advertising budget is spent in Allegheny County. Accordingly, I would conclude that if Appellees’ advertising expenditures constitute sufficient business transactions to confer personal jurisdiction in Pennsylvania, then they are also sufficient to support a finding that venue was proper in Allegheny County.