Callow v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• applying pre-UCC contract law principles to a letter of credit governed solely by the UCPDC
• Nigerian government's purchase of cement was a commercial activity irrespective of its purposes for so doing
• “Breach of an agreement is necessarily performed ‘in connection with’ that agreement, or with a series of similar agreements.”
• claims arising out of foreign country’s breach of contracts to purchase cement fall within commercial activity exception to immunity
• “[s]ince service [of process] was made under Section 1608, the relevant area in delineating contacts is the entire United States, not merely New York [the forum state]”
• in the case of a foreign corporation, the relevant inquiry is whether the corporation has suffered direct financial loss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).