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BARTLETT v. ESTATE OF BURKE

No. COA22-95.

877 S.E.2d 432 (2022)

2022-NCCOA-588

Lennard BARTLETT, Sr. Administrator of the Estate of Mary Susan White Bartlett, Plaintiff, v. ESTATE OF Jeffrey L. BURKE; Air Methods Corporation; Airbus Helicopters Deutschland, GmbH; Airbus Helicopters, Inc.; Safran Helicopter Engines; and Safran Helicopter Engines USA, Inc., Defendants. Kasey Hobson Harrison, Executrix of the Estate of Kristopher Ray Harrison, Plaintiff v. Estate of Jeffrey L. Burke; Air Methods Corporation; Airbus Helicopters Deutschland, GmbH; Airbus Helicopters, Inc.; Safran Helicopter Engines; and Safran Helicopter Engines USA, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed September 6, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robb & Robb LLC, by Gary C. Robb , admitted pro hac vice, Anita Porte Robb , admitted pro hac vice, and Brittany Sanders Robb , admitted pro hac vice, and Ward and Smith P.A. by Christopher S. Edwards for plaintiff-appellees Lennard Bartlett, Sr. Administrator of the Estate of Mary Susan White Bartlett and Kasey Hobson Harrison, Executrix of the Estate of Kristopher Ray Harrison.

Pangia Law Group, by Amanda C. Dure and Joseph L. Anderson , Winston-Salem, and Mast, Mast, Johnson, Wells & Trimyer, PA, by Charles D. Mast , Smithfield, and Nichole G. Booker , Smithfield, for cross claimant-appellee the Estate of Jeffrey L. Burke.

Crouse Law Offices, Raleigh, by James T. Crouse , for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee Robert Sollinger.

Ellis & Winters LLP, Raleigh, by Alex J. Hagan and Kelly Margolis Dagger , and Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP by Kathryn A. Grace and William J. Katt , admitted pro hac vice, for defendants-appellees Estate of Jeffrey L. Burke and Air Methods Corporation.

Moore & Van Allen PLLC, Charlotte, by Christopher D. Tomlinson and Anthony T. Lathrop , and Locke Lord LLP by Eric C. Strain , admitted pro hac vice, and Paul E. Stinson , admitted pro hac vice, for defendant-appellant Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, by D. Martin Warf , Raleigh, and William M. Starr , Charlotte, and Jackson Walker LLP, by Stuart B. Brown, Jr. , admitted pro hac vice, for defendant-appellant Safran Helicopter Engines.

¶ 1 Safran Helicopter Engines ("SHE") and Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH ("AHD") appeal from orders entered denying their motions to dismiss for lack of specific personal jurisdiction. We reverse and remand.

I. Background

¶ 2 At approximately 11:08 a.m. on 8 September 2017, a Eurocopter Deutschland...

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