Amusement Equipment, Inc. v. Carl Heinz Mordelt, Heinz Mordelt Gmbh and Co. K.G. "Heimo", Defendants

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge.

It all started out innocently enough with a contract to deliver a mechanical display elephant and four remote control cars. The German engineering of appellee Heimo Heinz Mordelt GMBH & Co. K.G. (“Heimo”) would boost the efforts of Florida’s Amusement Equipment, Inc. (“Amusement”) to amuse and entertain for profit. But where Hannibal’s elephants managed to cross the snowy Alps with relative ease, this elephant and its vehicular entourage had an unexpected layover in a London airport on the way to their new world. Thus, for want of a transatlantic flight, Amusement’s…