Constructive Hands, Inc. v. Baker

MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER 1

KAHN, District Judge.

I. Jurisdiction

Federal Courts have original jurisdiction of claims arising under admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.

In its most pertinent part, 28 U.S.C. § 1333 provides that “[t]he district courts shall have original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of: ... [a]ny civil case of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.”... Admiralty jurisdiction, in a breach of contract action, arises only when the “subject-matter of the contract is…