Transatlantic Shiffahrtskontor 1 Gmbh v. Shanghai Foreign Trade Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing Seetransport as a case involving a “direct appeal of [an] arbitral award” and therefore illustrating the narrowness of the waiver exception
• noting that “it is not enough to find that the defendant committed some act ‘in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere and that act cause[d] a direct effect in the United States.’ We must also find that the plaintiffs suit in U.S. courts is ‘based upon’ that act.”
• collateral order doctrine allows sovereign’s immediate appeal of order denying motion to dismiss under FSIA
• defining “based upon” in the context of the FSIA
• comparing the FSIA’s causation requirements with those at common law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).