AFRAM EXPORT CORP. v. METALLURGIKI HALYPS, S.A.

Nos. 84-2524, 84-2601.

772 F.2d 1358 (1985)

AFRAM EXPORT CORPORATION, a Wisconsin corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. METALLURGIKI HALYPS, S.A., a foreign corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton Shinken, Shinken & Shinken, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee.

John H. Gross, Anderson, Russell, Kill & Olick, P.C., New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Before ESCHBACH and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The appeal and cross-appeal in this diversity breach of contract suit raise a variety of interesting issues, in particular of personal jurisdiction and contract damages.

Afram Export Corporation, the plaintiff, is a Wisconsin corporation that exports scrap metal. Metallurgiki Halyps, S.A., the defendant, is a Greek corporation that makes steel. In 1979, after a series of trans-Atlantic telephone and telex communications, the parties...

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