Companhia Brasileira Carbureto De Calicio v. Applied Industrial Materials Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the question to be certified was “of sufficient public importance because its resolution could affect numerous individuals and corporations that petition the federal government”
• concluding that the question to be certified was “of sufficient public importance because its resolution could affect numerous individuals and cor- porations that petition the federal govern- ment”
• noting that the D.C. Circuit has certified questions to the D.C. Court of Appeals “when District of Columbia law is genuinely uncertain and the question is of extreme public importance” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• denying personal jurisdiction where 10 plaintiffs did not allege any overt act that occurred in the District
• refusing to accept defendants’ petitions to the ITC as overt acts supporting a conspiracy theory of personal jurisdiction without first evaluating those petitions under the government contacts doctrine
• “[A] subsequent decision of a D.C. Court of Appeals panel may have limited the government contacts exception to cases in which the contacts with the federal government were an exercise of First Amendment rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).