AM. OVERSEAS MARINE v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that vessels’ calls at Florida ports were merely fortuitous and could not confer general jurisdiction
• explaining that specific jurisdiction \requires a causal connection between the defendant's activities in the forum state and the plaintiff's cause of action\
• finding \sporadic and nonpurposeful utilization of certain Florida ports\ insufficient to exercise general jurisdiction over nonresident shipowner
• finding no jurisdiction and discounting quality of contacts relating to port calls in forum state because they were not by the choice of defendants but at the direction of the United States military under contracts with the United States
• finding no jurisdiction and discounting quality of contacts relating to port calls in Florida because they were not made on the orders of defendants but instead were made at the direction of the United States military under contracts with the United States
• finding no jurisdiction and discounting quality of contacts relating to port calls in Florida because they were not made on the orders of defendants but instead were made at the direction of the United States military under contracts with the United States

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).