BRANDON HEFFERAN; SABINE HEFFERAN, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY INC.; JOHNSON & JOHNSON, Defendants-Appellees., 828 F.3d 488

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HOLDINGS: [1]-In this negligence action, appellants were still domiciled in Germany and had been for twelve years when they filed suit; [2]-Appellants had not shown that their decision to file suit in the United States was motived by a legitimate reason such as convenience or the ability to obtain jurisdiction over the manufacturer rather than tactical advantage; [3]-The differences in Germany's legal system did not reveal an alternative forum that provided a remedy so clearly inadequate or unsatisfactory that it was no remedy at all; [4]-Germany had the most significant relationship to the parties and occurrence where the injury occurred there and it was the place of the parties' relationship.