Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo

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• holding that the Declaratory Judgment Act does not create jurisdiction because “a declaratory judgment relies on a valid legal predicate.”
• explaining that the Court need not always decide personal jurisdiction if the case can be dismissed entirely on the merits
• noting that a court’s attempt to preclude the enforcement of a foreign judgment in courts of other nations raises a grave “international comity concern[]”
• explaining that the Act \is procedural only . . . and does not create an independent cause of action\
• explaining that it “may” be appropriate to avoid a complex jurisdictional question, and proceed to the merits, when a court “indisputably has personal jurisdiction” over at least some defendants
• reaching the merits and declining to “address the personal jurisdictional claims made by some defendants” where the court had personal jurisdiction over other defendants

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