United States First Circuit

Personal jurisdiction over an off-shore bank's parent company will not be found if there is not general or specific jurisdiction over the bank itself.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/27/2001
• Published 12/27/2001

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and TAURO, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mia Levine, Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, with whom Gerald E. McDowell, Chief Trial Attorney, Karen Taylor, Trial Attorney, Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, and Richard L. Hoffman, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Howard Wilson, with whom Alan H. Scheiner, Rosenman & Colin LLP, Michael B. Keating, Sarah Cooleybeck, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP were on brief, for appellees Swiss American Bank, Ltd. and Swiss American National Bank., Wm. Shaw McDermott, with whom Irene C. Freidel, Aimee Bierman, and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP were on brief, for appellee Inter-Maritime Bank, Geneva.