AGS International Services S.A. v. Newmont USA Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that federal district court did not have personal jurisdiction over foreign corporation whose only contact with the District was an office engaged in federal governmental liaison activities
• concluding that the national contacts test did not apply in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”
• holding that fourteen trips to the District of Columbia over two years for meetings with a part owner of the defendant company regarding funding the company’s mines do not constitute “continuous and systematic” contacts
• finding that employees visiting D.C. on average over twice per month was not systematic and continuous enough to create a continuing corporate presence
• noting that the plaintiff is required to demonstrate that “the claim raised [has] a discernible relationship to the ‘business’ transacted in the District”
• “Sodexho Alliance and Sodexho Peru also are not subject to personal jurisdiction here because they were served abroad and therefore were not served properly under the RICO statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).