JET WINE & SPIRITS, INC. v. BACARDI & CO., LTD.

No. 01-2481.

298 F.3d 1 (2002)

JET WINE & SPIRITS, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. BACARDI & COMPANY LTD., Defendant, Appellee, Bacardi Ltd., Bacardi U.S.A., Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 18, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan T. Lawson with whom J. Mark Dickison and Lawson & Weitzen, LLP were on brief for appellant.

Gerald J. Caruso with whom Carlene A. Pennell, Nur-ul-Haq, and Rubin and Rudman, LLP were on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LYNCH and LIPEZ Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This case raises the issue of the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal district court over an international corporation that has been allocated certain responsibilities within a complex corporate family. Jet Wine & Spirits, a broker of alcoholic beverages in New Hampshire, appeals the dismissal, for lack of personal jurisdiction, of its action based on state contract and tort law against Bacardi & Company (BACO), an owner of...

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