Auto-resizing pasted layers to the size of the placeholder

I have designed a number of templates which have placeholders representing where the images will go, and they are sometimes different sizes. I have an action that will select the non-transparent pixels on the placeholder layer prior to using the "Paste Into" command to bring the new image in. Is there any way to use the pixels dimensions of that placeholder (as seen in the info palette) to automatically resize the incoming image to those dimensions? I don't want to have to use the "Fit Image" command on every image prior to copying and pasting.

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