United States Fourth Circuit

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(k)(2) cannot be used to obtain personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation where the foreign corporation's contacts with the United States fail to establish any proper basis for specific or general jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2005
• Published 10/26/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joe Alfred Izen, Jr., Bellaire, Texas, for Appellant.   Roy Grant Decker, Jr., Miles & Stockbridge, McLean, Virginia;  John Morgan Ryan, Vendeventer Black, L.L.P., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  William L. Stauffer, Jr., Miles & Stockbridge, McLean, Virginia, for Appellees Northrop Grumman Corporation and Newport News Shipbuilding, Incorporated;  Katharina K. Brekke, Vandeventer Black, L.L.P., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee Keppel Group Corporation, dba Keppel Offshore & Marine, Limited, dba Keppel Shipyard (Pte), Ltd.