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CANTUBA v. AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING

No. 97-C-2882.

709 So.2d 263 (1998)

Angelina CANTUBA, et al. v. AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 4, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Carrigee, James O.M. Womack, Rebecca F. Penniman, Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, for Respondent The American Bureau of Shipping.

I. Matthew Williamson, W. Sean O'Neil, O'Neil, Eichin, Miller, Saporito & Harris, New Orleans, for Relator Iron Ore Company of Canada.

C. Gordon Starling, Jr., Gelpi, Sullivan, Carrol & Gibbens, New Orleans, for Defendant/Appellee Weathernews, Inc.

Robert S. Reich, Reich, Meeks & Treadaway, L.L.C., Metairie, for Defendants/Appellees Nevi Maritime Co. and George F. Gyftakis.

Before ARMSTRONG, PLOTKIN and WALTZER, JJ.

ARMSTRONG, Judge.

Relator Iron Ore Company ("IOCC") seeks review of the trial court's denial of its Declinatory Exception of Lack of In Personam Jurisdiction. For the reasons that follow, we grant relator's application for supervisory writs, reverse the judgment of the trial court, and grant relator's exception.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

On January 1, 1994, the M/V MARIKA, a Panamanian vessel...

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