Legal Opinion
Amoco Egypt Oil Company Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation v. Leonis Navigation Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1993No. 91-35978PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from the district court’s dismissal of an action against a foreign corporation for lack of personal jurisdiction. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The Panay Sampaguita, a ship sailing from Singapore to France, collided with an oil platform in Egyptian waters. The ship was owned by a Panamanian corporation and bareboat chartered 1 by Leonis Navigation (“Leonis”), a Philippine corporation with its headquarters in Manila. The platform was jointly owned by Amoco Egypt Oil Company, a Delaware corporation with its principal offices in Egypt, and Egyptian General Petro…
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