United States Sixth Circuit

In an action claiming diversity jurisdiction, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is remanded with instructions to resolve the jurisdictional issue by determining plaintiff's citizenship due to: 1) the complexity of the jurisdictional facts in the case, because of the members and sub-members (and potential submembers) that comprise plaintiff-company; and 2) the fact that no controlling precedent exists regarding how to determine the citizenship of a French S.A.R.L. for diversity-jurisdiction purposes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2010
• Published 02/24/2010

Judges

• Before DAUGHTREY, GILMAN, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ON BRIEF:Janice T. O'Halloran, Stefanski & Associates, LLC, Youngstown, Ohio, Daniel J. Buckley, Eric W. Richardson, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellant. John P. Liekar, Jr., Yukevich, Marchetti, Liekar & Zangrilli, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.