Taag Linhas Aereas De Angola v. Transamerica Airlines, Inc., Transamerica Corporation, H.K. Howard, William Maier, Joseph Murphy, Eric J. Korth

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• holding that third-party beneficiaries and other non-signatory defendants are subject to the forum selection clause
• concluding that “an appeal specifically from the ruling on the [Rule 60(b) ] motion must be taken if the issues raised in that motion are to be considered by the Court of Appeals”
• stating, as a rule, that “[f]ederal law governs the validity of a forum selection clause”
• involving claim against foreign sovereigns under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
• “It is not 12 unreasonable or unjust to enforce [a forum selection] clause even though some of them did 13 not sign the agreement.”
• forum selection clause can restrict third-party beneficiary to designated forum; it is not unreasonable or unjust to enforce clause when all other defendants agree to jurisdiction in the selected forum

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