Base Metal Trading, Ltd. v. OJSC \Novokuznetsky Aluminum Factory\

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• holding that the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards “does not confer personal jurisdiction when it would not otherwise exist”
• holding that the plaintiff must demonstrate that defendant’s “contacts with the United States as a whole support the exercise of jurisdiction consistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
• noting that the First Circuit’s certification requirement does not permit litigants to adopt “inconsistent alternate positions in a case”
• noting that the First Circuit’s certification requirement does not permit litigants to adopt “inconsistent alternate positions in a case”
• noting that the First Circuit’s certification requirement does not permit litigants to adopt “inconsistent alternate positions in a case”
• upholding district court’s denial of jurisdictional discovery where “the plaintiff simply wants to conduct a fishing expedition in the hopes of discovering some basis of jurisdiction”

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