Legal Opinion
Afram Export Corporation, a Wisconsin Corporation v. Metallurgiki Halyps, S.A., a Foreign Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 5, 1985No. 84-2524, 84-2601PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The appeal and cross-appeal in this diversity breach of contract suit raise a variety of interesting issues, in particular of personal jurisdiction and contract damages.
Afram Export Corporation, the plaintiff, is a Wisconsin corporation that exports scrap metal. Metallurgiki Halyps, S.A., the defendant, is a Greek corporation that makes steel. In 1979, after a series of trans-Atlantic telephone and telex communications, the parties made a contract through an exchange of telex messages for the purchase by Metallurgiki of 15,000 tons of clean shredded scrap, at $135 per…
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