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The Relationship Between The Fsia’s Commercial-Activities Exception And The Due-Process Clause
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2017
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1 28 U.S.C. 81605(a)(2).
2 On the distinction between general and specific jurisdiction, see Helicópteros Nacionales de Colombia v. Hall, 466 U.S. 408. 414 nn. 8, 9 (1984).
3 Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 111 S.Ct. 1522 (1991).
4 647 F.2d 300 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1148 (1982).
5 Meadows v. Dominican Republic, 628 F.Supp. 599 (N.D. Cal. 1986), aff’d, 817 F.2d 517 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 976 (1987).
6 Walpex Trading Co. v. Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, 712 F. Supp. 383 (S.D.N.Y. 1989).
7 Weltover, Inc. v. Republic of Argentina, 753 F.Supp. 1201 (S.D.N.Y. 1991).
8 Foremost McKesson Inc. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 759 F. Supp. 855 (D.D.C. 1991).
9 647 F.2d at 308.
10 H.R. Rep. No. 94-1487. 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 13. reprinted in 1976 U.S. Code Cong. & Admin. News 6604, 6612.
11 International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945).
12 McGee v. International Life Insurance Co., 355 U.S. 220, 223 (1957).
13 Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726, 742 n. 17 (1978). See also Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425, 451 n.13 (1977): “Congress [is] presumed [to have] inten[ded] that [a statute] operate within constitutional bounds. . . .”
14 276 U.S. 13, 18-19, 24 (1928). Similarly, in Verlinden B.V. v. Central Bank of Nigeria, 461 U.S. 480 (1983), the Supreme Court held that the FSIA’s grant of federal jurisdiction over suits against foreign states was constitutional because the FSIA’s immunity provisions “must be applied by the district courts in every action against a foreign sovereign” and thus “every action against a foreign sovereign necessarily involves application of a body of substantive federal law. . . .” 461 U.S. at 493, 497 (emphasis added). The Court thus did not consider it sufficient that a substantial federal issue had been raised in the case before it.
15 e.g., in re Rio Grande Transport, Inc., 516 F. Supp. 1155, 1163 (S.D.N.Y. 1981).
16 465 U.S. 783 (1984).
17 465 U.S. 770 (1984).
18 See Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 897 F.2d 377 (9th Cir. 1990), reversed on other grounds, 111 S.Ct. 1522 (1991).