Global Index, Inc. v. Mkapa

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, with “no difficulty,” that “Tanzanian promissory notes [are] a commercial activity”
• noting the D.C. Circuit has not “expressly adopted or rejected the ‘legally significant act’ test,” but instead follows the “more general approach set forth in Weltover”
• rejecting argument that direct effect existed where “[t]he notes plainly require payment in U.S. dollars to a U.S. company but, on their face, do not designate any place of payment at all, let alone a particular bank or city in the United States”
• “[I]n almost every case, in this circuit and others, 1 Plaintiff’s other advertising evidence includes a tweet from SBI’s official Twitter account. (Pl.’s Opp’n, Ex. 1, Dkt. No. 46-1.

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