SIAM KRAFT P. CO., LTD. v. Parsons & Whittemore, Inc.
Decision Date | 25 September 1975 |
Docket Number | Civ. A. No. 1716-73. |
Citation | 400 F. Supp. 810 |
Court | U.S. District Court — District of Columbia |
Parties | SIAM KRAFT PAPER CO., LTD., Plaintiff, v. PARSONS & WHITTEMORE, INC., et al., Defendants. |
Mattaniah Eytan, James W. Schroeder, Charles W. Kirkwood, Murray J. Belman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.
Evan R. Berlack, Burton A. Schwalb, John W. Douglas, G. R. Poehner, Washington, D. C., for defendants.
AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
This cause comes before the Court at this time on defendant Parsons & Whittemore, Inc.'s motion to quash service of process and to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. Defendant Parsons & Whittemore, Inc. is a New York-based corporation whose business primarily involves the construction and operation of pulp mills and paper mills in foreign countries. To facilitate such foreign investment projects, the Federal Government, through agencies such as the Export-Import Bank and the Agency for International Development (A.I.D.), issues grants to support feasibility studies, makes loans to foreign borrowers and guarantees domestic loans and equity investments.
In the course of developing a pulp and paper mill to be based in Thailand, the subject of this law suit, defendant Parsons & Whittemore received a grant from A.I.D. to cover one-half of its costs in undertaking the feasibility study, sought and secured certain investment guarantees from A.I.D. in connection with its own equity investment and loans from private lenders, and negotiated a loan from the Export-Import Bank to the plaintiff, Siam Kraft Paper Company, Ltd.
The Court in effect treated the question of jurisdiction over the corporate defendant in the same way as it would have been treated if the defendant's District of Columbia customer was a private company rather than the Federal Government. In other words, the Court...
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