Blue Whale Corp. v. Grand China Shipping Development Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Assessing the prima facie validity of a claim is a substantive inquiry that should be governed by the relevant substantive law.”
• applying federal common law where the parties were split between the United Kingdom, India, and Hong Kong, and thus there was an “absence of a dominant foreign choice of law”
• “Thus, when parties properly invoke admiralty jurisdiction, courts apply federal maritime choice-of-law rules.” (citation omitted)
• rejecting choice-of-law clause, then proceeding to contacts analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).