Twists, Turns and Anti-Suit Injunctions

Only peripherally mentioned, as an interest party, is a foreign state in the arbitration and anti-suit injunction decision rendered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on September 7, 2007 in the matter Karaha Bodas Co., LLC v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara (Pertamina),, docket number 07-0065.

The appellate ruling follows litigation in Switzerland, Texas, Indonesia, the Cayman Islands and New York to enforce and vacate a Swiss arbitral award under the New York Convention, Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of June 10, 1958, 21 UST. 2517, 330 UNTS 38, 9 USC §§201-208.

The court upholds an anti-suit injunction by applying the test set forth in China Trade & Development Corp. v. M.V. Choong Yong, 837 F.2d 33 (2d Cir. 1987), even after the satisfaction of the money judgment, by distinguishing the facts from the recent Eigth Circuit anti-suit injunction ruling in Goss International Corp. v. Man Roland Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, 491 F.3d 355 (8th Cir. 2007). -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.

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