OPINION AND ORDER
SPATT, District Judge.
May the Court assert pendent-party jurisdiction over a defendant in a diversity action when the amount in controversy on the claim asserted against that defendant is concededly below the requisite jurisdictional amount?
For the reasons that follow, this Court is of the view that it may not.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The following facts are derived from the plaintiffs' amended complaint:
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