Quigley v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n

How later courts describe this case

• determining that a country’s right to regulate imports and exports and its own natural resources are “uniquely sovereign function[s],” not commercial activity
• enumerating contacts partnership agreement had with various states and concluding that agreement affected interstate commerce
• reversing district court’s order compelling arbitration in Illinois in contravention of forum-selection clause in contract’s arbitration clause designating Texas as the arbitration situs
• termination of agreement regarding right to regulate imports and exports not a commercial activity because only a sovereign could so act
• the defendant came to the forum state to negotiate with the plaintiff over the purchase price and transacted business while in the forum state
• any questions as to whether an issue is arbitrable are to be resolved in favor of arbitration
• “Similarity of expression must be established because it is an axiom of copyright law that copyright protects only an author’s expression of an idea and not the idea itself.”
• Bangladesh government’s granting and subsequent revocation of export license to export natural resources is a sovereign act and the commercial activity exception of the FSIA is not applicable to these acts