of an unserved resident defendant, who otherwise does not destroy diversity, precludes removal under § 1441(b). See Maple Leaf Bakery, 1999 WL 1101326, at *2. Plaintiffs contend further that removal is defective in any event since Beard, a resident defendant, joined in the notice of removal. However, in the court’s opinion, while certainly odd and unnecessary, it appears that Beard’s joinder in the removal petition does not render the removal defective. Neither, in the court’s opinion, may his joinder in the removal petition constitute a “voluntary appearance” that could be properly be equated with service of process, particularíy since a necessary premise of the removal notice was the lack of service of process on Beard. Cf. Windac Corp. v. Clarke, 530 F.Supp. 812, 813 (D.Neb.1982) (<HOLDING>). Accordingly, plaintiffs’ suggestion to the
holding licensing agreement between defendant and nonparty texas resident was not relevant to specific jurisdiction holding that although the resident defendant had not been formally served prior to removal the resident defendant had made a voluntary appearance in state court and therefore jurisdiction was not proper under  1441b holding that fraudulent joinder required a finding that either there was no possibility that the plaintiff could prove a cause of action against the resident defendant or that the plaintiff fraudulently pled jurisdictional facts in order to subject that resident defendant to the jurisdiction of the state court holding that the defendants consent to search was voluntary although he had been served with a subpoena holding that another states reservation of personal jurisdiction over a florida resident for the purpose of modifying its decree may last as long as the effectiveness of the decree and that no dueprocess violation occurs by the entry of a default modification against the florida resident if the florida resident was afforded proper notice