Legal Opinion
Dominic P. Raffaele v. Compagnie Generale Maritime, S.A. Paris, and Unikai Hafenbetrieb, Gmbh
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 31, 1983No. 81-3637PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
Dominic Raffaele, a longshoreman, appeals the dismissal for want of personal jurisdiction of his action for damages. Raffaele seeks to recover for injuries he suffered when a crate fell on him inside a container that he was unloading in Portland, Oregon.
Unikai Hafenbetrieb (Unikai), a German corporation, is a terminal operator in Hamburg, Germany, whose operations included the packing (“stuffing”) of the container unloaded by Raffaele. 1 Raffaele contends that his injuries were the proximate result of Unikai’s negligence in propping a crate inside the container with a…
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