11th Circuit Panel Finds Court Has Jurisdiction Over Mortgage Lender’s Executive

Mealey's (February 19, 2021, 10:16 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 17 ruled on panel rehearing that a federal district court did not err when it determined that it had personal jurisdiction over a mortgage lender’s executive even though it would not ordinarily have such jurisdiction based on his own contacts because his company’s “suit-related forum contacts” satisfy the minimum contacts test since relators sufficiently alleged that the lender was the executive’s alter ego under “a corporate veil-piercing theory.”...