context: In contrast, under Rhoditis, business activities in the United States can satisfy the "base of operations" requirement regardless of whether the particular activities in question were related to the plaintiffs injury.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 398 U.S. 307, 307-08
citation_a.parenthetical: holding "base of operations" requirement fulfilled where defendant kept its largest office in New York, was 95% owned by a U.S. domiciliary who had lived in the United States for twenty-five years, and derived its "entire income" from shipping cargo to or from the United States
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Rhoditis, 398 U.S. at 307-08, 90 S.Ct. 1731 (holding “base of operations” requirement fulfilled where defendant kept its largest office in New York, was 95% owned by a U.S. domiciliary who had lived in the United States for twenty-five years, and derived its “entire income” from shipping cargo to or from the United States); Szumlicz, 698 F.2d at 1195 (hold ing “base of operations” requirement fulfilled where record reflected that the defendants maintained offices in Florida and New York, operated cruise ships out of two ports in Florida and elsewhere in the U.S., offered special rates to customers in the Continental United States, and employed shipping agents and a doctor in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida); cf. Cooper, 575 F.3d at 1178 (holding “base of operations” requirement unmet absent “information demonstrating that the U.S. is where [the defendants’] operations occur, management decisions are made or revenues are generated”); Membreño v. Costa Crociere S.p.A., 425 F.3d 932, 937-38 (11th Cir.2005) (analyzing U.S. parent corporation’s control over foreign defendant’s day-to-day business operations, volume of business performed in the U.S., and number of days spent by entire fleet at U.S. ports).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 575 F.3d 1178, 1178
citation_b.parenthetical: holding "base of operations" requirement unmet absent "information demonstrating that the U.S. is where [the defendants'] operations occur, management decisions are made or revenues are generated"
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Rhoditis, 398 U.S. at 307-08, 90 S.Ct. 1731 (holding “base of operations” requirement fulfilled where defendant kept its largest office in New York, was 95% owned by a U.S. domiciliary who had lived in the United States for twenty-five years, and derived its “entire income” from shipping cargo to or from the United States); Szumlicz, 698 F.2d at 1195 (hold ing “base of operations” requirement fulfilled where record reflected that the defendants maintained offices in Florida and New York, operated cruise ships out of two ports in Florida and elsewhere in the U.S., offered special rates to customers in the Continental United States, and employed shipping agents and a doctor in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida); cf. Cooper, 575 F.3d at 1178 (holding “base of operations” requirement unmet absent “information demonstrating that the U.S. is where [the defendants’] operations occur, management decisions are made or revenues are generated”); Membreño v. Costa Crociere S.p.A., 425 F.3d 932, 937-38 (11th Cir.2005) (analyzing U.S. parent corporation’s control over foreign defendant’s day-to-day business operations, volume of business performed in the U.S., and number of days spent by entire fleet at U.S. ports).