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Securities Regulation Keyed to Cox
Europe and Overseas Commodity Traders, S.A. v. Banque Paribas London
Citation:
147 F.3d 118 (1998)Facts
EOC, a Panamanian corporation wholly owned by Canadian citizen Alan Carr, maintained an investment account with Banque Paribas in London established in 1992. In October 1993, while Carr was visiting Florida, John Arida from Paribas’s London office contacted him by telephone and facsimile to discuss investment opportunities in the Paribas Global Bond Futures Fund. EOC alleges that Arida made misrepresentations about the Fund’s management and operations during these communications. Based on these alleged misrepresentations, Carr placed purchase orders totaling approximately $1,800,000 from Florida. The parties dispute whether the initial purchase order was placed while Carr was still in England or after his arrival in Florida. All parties to the transaction were foreign entities: EOC was Panamanian, Paribas was French, the Fund was organized under Luxembourg law, and the asset manager was Bahamian. No U.S. securities exchanges were involved, and no U.S. parties participated in the transactions.
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