Holding that an instrumentality of a foreign nation must respond to discovery about its worldwide assets and that it could not use the FSIA to conceal its assets from the district court
Holding district court did not abuse its discretion to deny jurisdictional discovery on alter ego theory in light of three declarations submitted by defendants controverting same
Holding that "waiver exception should be applied" when "an agreement contemplates adjudication of a dispute by the United States courts" or "a contract specifically states that the laws of a jurisdiction within the United States are to govern the transaction"
Holding "service through an embassy is expressly banned both by an international treaty to which the United States is a party and by U.S. statutory law" because the treaty prohibits service on a diplomatic officer and § 1608 does not authorize service of process on an ambassador
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Declining to exercise extraterritorial personal jurisdiction because, under California law, "the limits which generally exist upon the right to execute ... apply in a judgment debtor proceeding such as this" (citing Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 708.510 cmt. (West 1987) (Legislative Committee Comments, Assembly, 1982 Addition))
Holding that in enacting the IOIA, Congress adopted the body of foreign sovereign immunity law “only as it existed in 1945—when immunity of foreign sovereigns was absolute,” subject only to the President's decision to extend such immunity
Holding that the district court lacked personal jurisdiction over the garnishee and that the garnishee, as an agency of a foreign state, was "entitled to invoke the shield of sovereign immunity, whether against direct claims or an indirect writ of garnishment"
Allowing assignments only after a claim is allowed; the amount of the claim is decided; a warrant for payment is issued; and the assignment itself specifies the warrant, is made freely, and is signed by two witnesses