Legal Opinion
General Engineering Corporation v. Martin Marietta Alumina, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 12, 1986No. 85-3167PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge:
Martin Marietta Alumina, Inc., appeals an order of the District Court of the Virgin Islands denying its motion to enforce a forum selection clause in a contract action brought by General Engineering Corporation. This appeal requires us to decide two issues: whether the district court correctly chose the federal standard for enforcing a forum selection clause in a suit between two Virgin Islands corporations and whether the court applied the standard properly. We find that the district court should have used the state standard. After…
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