MOOG WORLD TRADE CORP. v. BANCOMER, S.A.

No. 95-2959.

90 F.3d 1382 (1996)

MOOG WORLD TRADE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BANCOMER, S.A.; Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adrian Philipp Sulser, St. Louis, MO, argued (Stefan J. Glynias, on the brief), for appellant.

Kevin M. Fong, San Francisco, CA, argued (Robert A. Gutkin, San Francisco, CA, and Steven Schwartz, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for appellee.

Before LOKEN, BRIGHT, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to apply the familiar due process limitation on personal jurisdiction to the rather unfamiliar realities of financing international trade. Moog World Trade Corp. ("Moog") agreed to sell automobile parts to its customer in Mexico, Commercializadora de Refacciones en Generales S.A. ("CRG"). To finance this purchase, CRG had its Mexican bank, Bancomer, S.A., issue an irrevocable commercial letter of credit naming Moog as beneficiary...

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