Reichler, Milton & Medel v. Republic of Liberia

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• holding that contracts for legal representation in “major lawsuits” brought in United States courts constituted commercial activity under the FSIA
• noting that jurisdiction existed “because payment for the legal services was to be made to a banking institution in the United States” and “Liberia’s failure to meet its payment obligation under this contract qualifies as an act that ‘causes a direct effect in the United States’ under the FSIA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).