D'ANGELO v. Petroleos Mexicanos

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

EDWIN D. STEEL, Jr., Senior District Judge:

Plaintiff, James P. D’Angelo, is the receiver of Papantla Royalties Corporation (“Papantla”), a dissolved Delaware corporation, appointed by order dated December 21, 1956, of the Court of Chancery of Delaware. He has brought an action against the defendant, Petróleos Mexicanos, a decentralized governmental agency of the Republic of Mexico, a non-resident of the United States, to obtain an order requiring the defendant to account to the plaintiff for oil produced from wells in Mexico in which he claims that Papantla and plaintiff…