Sulak v. American Eurocopter Corp.

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION TO APPLY HAWAII LAW

TERRY R. MEANS, District Judge.

Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion to Apply Hawaii Law (doc. 133), *837filed April 20, 2012. The Court GRANTS the motion in part and DENIES it in part.

I. BACKGROUND

In 2007, a helicopter piloted by William J. Sulak crashed in Hawaii, killing Sulak and three passengers and injuring the other three passengers. Sulak was a resident of Hawaii.1 The helicopter involved in the accident was designed and manufactured by defendant Eurocopter, S.A.S. (“Euro-copter”), a French corporation. (Resp.…