Cti-Container Leasing Corporation v. Oceanic Operations Corporation

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Oceanic Operations Corporation (“Oceanic”) appeals from so much of an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Leonard B. Sand, Judge, as denied Oceanic’s motion to dismiss the present action for want of admiralty jurisdiction and granted summary judgment against Oceanic on the issue of its liability to plaintiff-appellee CTI-Container Leasing Corporation (“CTI”). The principal issue on appeal concerns the scope of the federal courts’ admiralty jurisdiction. Specifically, we must decide whether a contract for…