MARK R. HORNAK, District Judge.
This case has a checkered history dating back to January 19,2011. Since the filing of the Complaint, ECF No.1, the Defendant, Dinsick Equipment Corporation, under the control of its President, David Dinsick, has failed to comply with Court Orders on at least seven (7) separate occasions.
Now before the Court is Plaintiff, Mayer Brothers Construction Company, Inc.'s Second Motion to Hold Defendant and Its Principals in Contempt of Court. ECF No. 23. Judge McLaughlin previously granted (as to the Defendant corporation) Plaintiff's First Motion to Hold Defendant and Its Principals in Contempt of Court, ECF No. 17, by written Memorandum Opinion and Order dated August 16, 2013, ECF No. 18. However, since it appears that Mr. Dinsick was not personally held in contempt via that Order, the Court will now schedule a hearing, at which time David Dinsick shall appear and show cause why he should not be held personally in contempt of Court, for his failure, as a responsible corporate officer, to compel the Defendant's compliance with the Court's orders.
Contempt "may be imposed in an ordinary civil proceeding upon notice and an opportunity to be heard. Neither a jury trial nor proof beyond a reasonable doubt is required." Int'l Union, UMWA v. Bagwell, 512 U.S. 821, 827 (1994). "Case law establishes ... that individuals, who are neither parties to a proceeding nor named in the court order at issue, may nonetheless be subject to the court's contempt powers if they have knowledge of a valid court order and abet others in violating it." Roe v. Operation Rescue, 54 F.3d 133, 140 (3d Cir. 1995); Max's Seafood Cafe ex reI. Lou-Ann, Inc. v. Quinteros, 176 F.3d 669, 674 (3d Cir. 1999) ("One with knowledge of a court order who abets another in violating the order is surely in contempt." (citing Roe, 54 F.3d at 140; Quinter v. Volkswagen of Am., 676 F.2d 969, 972 (3d Cir. 1982))).
The Supreme Court has defined the "paradigmatic coerCIve, civil contempt sanction" as "confining a contemnor indefinitely until he complies with an affirmative command . . . ." Bagwell, 512 U.S. at 828. Before imposing such a sanction, however, this Circuit has held that the "`potential contemnor'" must "`be given notice and a hearing.'" Marshak v. Treadwell, 595 F.3d 478,492 (3d Cir. 2009) (quoting Newton v. A.C. & S., Inc., 918 F.2d 1121,1127 (3d Cir.1990)).
Despite his utter failure to actively engage in the proceedings associated with this case, Mr. Dinsick presumptively has the requisite knowledge necessary for the Court to find him personally in contempt. Such knowledge is evidenced on this Court's docket, which contains several signed receipts accepting service for various documents, as well as a handwritten note from Mr. Dinsick to Judge McLaughlin requesting an extension of time to comply with an Order-the extension was granted, but the submission ordered never arrived. ECF Nos. 9; 10; 13; 22.
Moreover, while Mr. Dinsick is not himself a party to the action, the Defendant corporation clearly acts only through its officers, principally Mr. Dinsick as its President. Bergeson v. Life Ins. Corp. of Am., 265 F.2d 227, 232 (10th Cir. 1959) ("A corporation necessarily acts vicariously. It is elementary that a corporation can acquire knowledge only through its officers and agents. Their knowledge is the knowledge of the corporation."). Judge McLaughlin found the requisite knowledge sufficient to hold the corporation in contempt. ECF No. 18. By necessity, then, since a corporation "can know only what its agents and officers know," Schoenbaum v. Firstbrook, 405 F.2d 200,211 (2d Cir. 1968) abrogated on other grounds by Morrison v. Nat'l Australia Bank Ltd., 561 U.S. 247, 130 (2010), Mr. Dinsick, as the only known representative of Dinsick Equipment Corporation, also demonstrated the requisite knowledge of this action when he filed documents on behalf ofthe corporation. See ECF No. 10. As anon-party, that knowledge and action as President of his company in abetting his company's noncompliance with Court orders, provides authority for this Court to hold him personally in contempt. Roe, 54 F.3d at 140; Quinteros, 176 F.3d at 674.
In compliance with Circuit precedent, the Court will therefore schedule a hearing to show cause why Mr. Dinsick should not be held in contempt of court in his individual capacity. Marshak, 595 F.3d at 492. If Mr. Dinsick fails to appear at the hearing ordered by this Court, the Court will order the "paradigmatic" sanction of holding Mr. Dinsick personally in contempt and "confining [him] indefinitely" until he complies Bahwell, 512 U.S. at 828.