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Jurisdiction - The Supreme Court Upholds the Constitutionality of the Jurisdictional Grant of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act over a Suit between an Alien and a Foreign Sovereign in United States District Court

Plaintiff, a Dutch corporation with its principal office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, filed suit in United States district court against the Central Bank of Nigeria for anticipatory breach of an irrevocable, confirmed letter of credit.'Plaintiff alleged jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA or Act), 2 and defendant moved to dismiss due to lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction.3 The district court, despite conflict-1 Defendant had agreed to purchase 240,000 metric tons of cement from plaintiff supplier and to establish "an Irrevocable, Transferable a…