RAFFAELE v. COMPAGNIE GENERALE MARITIME

No. 81-3637.

707 F.2d 395 (1983)

Dominic P. RAFFAELE, Appellant, v. COMPAGNIE GENERALE MARITIME, S.A. Paris, and Unikai Hafenbetrieb, Gmbh, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond J. Conboy, Pozzi, Wilson, Atchison, Kahn & O'Leary, Portland, Or., for appellant.

Randee G. Fenner, Miller, Nash, Yerke, Wiener & Hager, Portland, Or., for appellees.

Before GOODWIN, PREGERSON, and CANBY, Circuit Judges.


GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.

Dominic Raffaele, a longshoreman, appeals the dismissal for want of personal jurisdiction of his action for damages. Raffaele seeks to recover for injuries he suffered when a crate fell on him inside a container that he was unloading in Portland, Oregon.

Unikai Hafenbetrieb (Unikai), a German corporation, is a terminal operator in Hamburg, Germany, whose operations included the packing ("stuffing...

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