WINTER, District Judge.
This case tests the quantum of American contact necessary to sustain jurisdiction under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688. Should the Court hold the Jones Act inapplicable here, the subsidiary question is presented whether the Court should decline jurisdiction of the causes of action not asserted under the Jones Act.
By his amended libel, libelant asserts three causes of action: First, a libel in
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