United States Second Circuit

In a tort action against a ship owner for a collision allegedly caused by its negligent operations, dismissal of the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed where: 1) the owner of a vessel may not constitutionally be subjected to personal jurisdiction with respect to an unrelated suit merely because, as the owner may have expected, the vessel has repeatedly visited the forum's ports at the sole direction of its charterers; and 2) defendant's contacts with the United States did not satisfy the heightened minimum contacts requirement for general jurisdiction over a non-resident.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2008
• Published 04/01/2008

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, CALABRESI, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Megan Benett (Paul S. Edelman, on the brief), Kreindler & Kreindler, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John D. Kimball, Blank Rome LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.