Legal Opinion
U.S.S. Yachts, Inc. v. Ocean Yachts, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 18, 1990No. 88-2240, 89-1728PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
The district court dismissed the present action for lack of personal jurisdiction over defendant Ocean Yachts, Inc. We affirm.
The relevant facts derived from the pleadings and affidavits are as follows. On July 6, 1984, Robert C. Buckley, president of plaintiff U.S.S. Yachts, Inc., a corporation of Florida and the Cayman Islands, British West Indies, sent a letter from his Grand Cayman office to the New Jersey office of defendant Ocean Yachts, Inc. (Ocean). 1 In the letter, Buckley requested designation as an Ocean dealer in the British West Indies and Puerto…
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