United States First Circuit

In plaintiff's action for breach of contract and quantum meruit, judgment in favor of the defendant based on an earlier judgment entered by the Superior Court of Quebec is reversed and remanded where: 1) it was clear that genuine issues of fact remain to be resolved before the authority of Quebec to exercise personal jurisdiction over defendant can be established; and 2) district court's analysis of jurisdiction is deficient as absent from the district court's analysis is any discussion of the "Gestalt factors," which a court must consider to determine the fairness of subjecting a defendant to a foreign jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2010
• Published 02/03/2010

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.12, Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella and Ripple,Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles K. Reed, with whom P. Michael Freed, McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP, Alex C. Gianacoplos, and Duggan & Caccavaro, were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward J. Fallman, for appellee.