Judge Dismisses Canadian Firm’s Petition To Confirm Award Against Iraqi Company

Mealey's (November 12, 2020, 3:37 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C.— A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Oct. 29 granted a motion to dismiss a Canadian engineering firm’s petition to confirm an arbitration award against an Iraqi state-owned oil company for lack of personal jurisdiction because the oil company does not have sufficient minimum contacts in the United States and the District of Columbia is not the proper venue for the action (OGI Group Corporation v. Oil Projects Company of the Ministry of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq [SCOP], No. 19-2619, D. D.C., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201480)....