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ALBEMARLE CORP. v. ASTRAZENECA UK LTD.

No. 10-1000.

628 F.3d 643 (2010)

ALBEMARLE CORPORATION; Albemarle International Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ASTRAZENECA UK LTD, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 8, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Charles Mitchell Brown , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants. Raymond A. Cardozo , Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: William C. Wood, Jr. , Elizabeth H. Campbell , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants. S. Miles Dumville , Travis A. Sabalewski , Reed Smith LLP, Richmond, Virginia; Jacquelyn D. Austin , Keith D. Munson , Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge CONRAD joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we address how to interpret a forum selection clause that makes an international contract "subject to jurisdiction" in the United Kingdom.

AstraZeneca UK Ltd., a United Kingdom corporation, agreed in a 2005 contract to purchase a substantial portion of its needs for di-isopropyl-phenol ("DIP") from Albemarle International Corporation, a Virginia corporation. Albemarle International Corporation was the...

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