Roger Fandel v. Arabian American Oil Company, a Corporation

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• stating that contacts with the government of a sort “not ... customarily associated with strictly commercial operations” do not constitute “doing business” under the statute
• excluding the government-related activities of a District of Columbia office from the jurisdictional analysis because they did not constitute “doing 2 business” under the long-arm statute
• excluding the govern- ment-related activities of a District of Co- lumbia office from the jurisdictional analy- sis because they did not constitute “doing business” under the long-arm statute
• finding no general jurisdiction where the purpose of defendant’s office in the District was to act as “its state department” regarding “the Middle East generally and Saudi Arabia in particular’’
• “Washington presents many business organizations with special needs for a continuous and ponderable physical presence there, ... and that the purpose of Congress was not to make that presence in every case a base for the assertion of personal jurisdiction.”
• government contacts exception applied where defendant maintained a fiveperson office in the District for purposes of handling diplomatic and regulatory issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).