Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap as v. HeereMac Vof

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to interpret the scope of the United States antitrust laws and their application to foreign conduct. The plaintiff is a Norwegian oil corporation that conducts business solely in the North Sea. It seeks redress under the United States antitrust laws against the defendants for an alleged anticompetitive conspiracy that supposedly inflated the plaintiffs operating costs in the North Sea. Supreme Court precedent makes clear as a general proposition that United States antitrust laws “do not regulate the competitive conditions of other nations’…