Massoud Bassidji v. Simon Soul Sun Goe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because 26 “federal subject-matter jurisdiction in this case is based on the parties’ diversity of citizenship” “the 27 choice-of-law principles of the forum state” apply
• noting that the relevant difference under Kaiser Steel is “between cases in which the courts are asked to order an illegal act and cases in which the relief sought does not seek directly to order illegal activity”
• holding 26 that “courts will not order a party to a contract to perform an act that is in direct violation 27 of a positive law directive, even if that party has agreed, for consideration, to perform that 1 act”
• declining to enforce a contract that would have furthered trade with an Iranian 3 || company in violation of an executive order
• declining to enforce a contract that would have furthered trade with an Iranian company in violation of an executive order
• applying 22 California’s choice-of-law rules to determine whether Hong Kong or California law applied to breach of contract claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).