United States Second Circuit

A district court lacked jurisdiction, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, to hear claims not resting on an act by the defendants that had a "direct effect in the United States," relating to rights to use of a domain name.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2002
• Published 08/12/2002

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  MINER and SACK, Circuit Judges, and BERMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maxim H. Waldbaum, Salans Hertzfeld Heilbronn Christy & Viener (Lora A. Moffatt, Lori D. Greendorfer, and Joseph E. Petersen, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David B. Goldstein, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, New York, N.Y. (Roger Bearden, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, New York, NY, and Terry Gross, Gross & Belsky LLP, San Francisco, CA, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.