Render MVC PartialView into SignalR response

I would like to render a PartialView to an HTML string so I can return it to a SignalR ajax request.

Something like:

SignalR Hub (mySignalHub.cs)

public class mySignalRHub: Hub
{
    public string getTableHTML()
    {
        return PartialView("_MyTablePartialView", GetDataItems()) // *How is it possible to do this*
    }
}

Razor PartialView (_MyTablePartialView.cshtml)

@model IEnumerable<DataItem>

<table>
    <tbody>
        @foreach (var dataItem in Model)
        {
        <tr>
            <td>@dataItem.Value1</td>
            <td>@dataItem.Value2</td>
        </tr>
        }
    </tbody>
</table>

HTML (MySignalRWebPage.html)

<Script>
    ...      
    //Get HTML from SignalR function call
    var tableHtml = $.connection.mySignalRHub.getTableHTML();

    //Inject into div
    $('#tableContainer).html(tableHtml);
</Script>

<div id="tableContainer"></div>

My problem is that I can't seem to render a PartialView outside of a Controller. Is it even possible to render a PartialView outside of a Controller? It would be very nice to still be able to leverage the awesome HTML generating abilities that come with Razor.

Am I going about this all wrong? Is there another way?