Holding that foreign plaintiff's forum choice given "greater deference ... to the extent that it was motivated by legitimate reasons, including the plaintiff's convenience"
Holding that a third-party beneficiary to a charter party “must show that ‘the parties to that contract intended to confer a benefit on [it] when contracting; it is not enough that some benefit incidental to the performance of the contract may accrue to [it]’ ” (alterations in original) (quoting McPheeters v. McGinn, Smith & Co., 953 F.2d 771, 773 (2d Cir.1992))
Holding negligent supervision lawsuit was based upon acts of "alleged negligent supervision," including "hiring, training, employment, and supervision of employees"
Holding that "to identify ‘commercial activity’ for purposes of the ‘commercial activity’ exception to immunity under the FSIA, we must ask whether ‘the particular actions that the foreign state performs ... are the type of actions by which a private party engages in trade and traffic or commerce’ "
154 F. Supp. 2d 682 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) Cited 38 times
Taking judicial notice of judgment but explaining that "courts routinely take judicial notice of documents filed in [other actions], ... not for the truth of the matters asserted in the other litigation, but rather to establish the fact of such litigation and related filings"
Fed. R. Evid. 201 Cited 29,784 times 26 Legal Analyses
Holding "[n]ormally, in deciding a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, courts must limit their inquiry to the facts stated in the complaint and the documents either attached to or incorporated in the complaint. However, courts may also consider matters of which they may take judicial notice."