Defunct Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block’s corporate registration in New Jersey and its acceptance of service there for a malpractice suit against it did not give a New Jersey court jurisdiction to hear the case, the Appellate Division has ruled.

The decision is the first published case in a New Jersey court to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest rulings on general jurisdiction, including Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California, said Stephen Orlofsky, the lawyer representing Wolf Block in the case.

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