Legal Opinion
St. Croix, Ltd. v. Shell Oil Co.
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided January 22, 2014No. S.Ct. Civil No. 2011-0057PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(January 22, 2014)
Cabret, Associate Justice.
St. Croix, Ltd., St. Thomas I, Ltd., St. Thomas II, Ltd., and Llewellyn Phillips appeal the Superior Court’s dismissal of their claims against Hoechst Celanese Corporation and E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company for lack of personal jurisdiction. For the following reasons, we affirm.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In the late 1970s, Shell Oil Company began manufacturing the plastic resin polybutylene, which it sold in bulk form to companies around the United States. Celanese and DuPont manufactured another plastic resin that…
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