context: Federal courts applying Iowa's choice-of-law principles are in line with Iowa's state courts' decisions.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 23 F.Supp.2d 1004, 1004
citation_a.parenthetical: finding under Iowa choice-of-law rules that a claim for a breach of an alleged contract to keep an invention confidential was governed by the law of Nebraska, which barred punitive damages, rather than by the law of Iowa, California, or Nevada, as the defendant was a Nebraska corporation, and negotiations and performance occurred primarily in Nebraska, and negotiations only incidentally began in California and terminated in Nevada
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Dethmers Mfg. Co., 23 F.Supp.2d at 1004 (finding under Iowa choice-of-law rules that a claim for a breach of an alleged contract to keep an invention confidential was governed by the law of Nebraska, which barred punitive damages, rather than by the law of Iowa, California, or Nevada, as the defendant was a Nebraska corporation, and negotiations and performance occurred primarily in Nebraska, and negotiations only incidentally began in California and terminated in Nevada); see also Woods Masonry, Inc., 198 F.Supp.2d at 1021 (finding that in applying Iowa’s “most significant relationship” test, even though the underlying accident occurred in Iowa, Arkansas had the most significant relationship because the policy at issue was formed in Arkansas, and the policyholder was domiciled in Arkansas); Northwestern Flyers, Inc. v. Olson Bros. Mfg. Co., Inc., 679 F.2d 1264, 1272 (8th Cir.1982) (finding that although a plane crash occurred in Montana, Nebraska had “the most significant relationship with the transaction in dispute and that Nebraska law should control any interpretation of the [insurance] policy provisions” as the parties entered into the insurance contract in Nebraska, and the insured was a Nebraska corporation).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 679 F.2d 1264, 1272
citation_b.parenthetical: finding that although a plane crash occurred in Montana, Nebraska had "the most significant relationship with the transaction in dispute and that Nebraska law should control any interpretation of the [insurance] policy provisions" as the parties entered into the insurance contract in Nebraska, and the insured was a Nebraska corporation
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Dethmers Mfg. Co., 23 F.Supp.2d at 1004 (finding under Iowa choice-of-law rules that a claim for a breach of an alleged contract to keep an invention confidential was governed by the law of Nebraska, which barred punitive damages, rather than by the law of Iowa, California, or Nevada, as the defendant was a Nebraska corporation, and negotiations and performance occurred primarily in Nebraska, and negotiations only incidentally began in California and terminated in Nevada); see also Woods Masonry, Inc., 198 F.Supp.2d at 1021 (finding that in applying Iowa’s “most significant relationship” test, even though the underlying accident occurred in Iowa, Arkansas had the most significant relationship because the policy at issue was formed in Arkansas, and the policyholder was domiciled in Arkansas); Northwestern Flyers, Inc. v. Olson Bros. Mfg. Co., Inc., 679 F.2d 1264, 1272 (8th Cir.1982) (finding that although a plane crash occurred in Montana, Nebraska had “the most significant relationship with the transaction in dispute and that Nebraska law should control any interpretation of the [insurance] policy provisions” as the parties entered into the insurance contract in Nebraska, and the insured was a Nebraska corporation).