Daventree Ltd. v. Republic of Azerbaijan

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the first prong of the commercial-activity exception applies where a sovereign expropriated plaintiffs’ assets outside the United States and attempted to resell them to third-party investors in the United States
• holding that a foreign bank’s performance of wire transfers are not “minimum contacts”
• explaining that transaction of business under New York’s long-arm statute may be imputed to co- conspirators
• explaining that transaction of business under New York’s long-arm statute may be imputed to co- conspirators
• finding no personal jurisdiction under conspiracy theory because there was no factual basis from which court could impute conduct of putative co- conspirators to defendants
• authorizing jurisdictional discovery “regarding the extent of defendant [bank's] general business contacts with the United States [during the relevant period]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).