9th Cir.
10-56708

The court of appeals reversed a district court order denying a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court held that no subject matter jurisdiction existed under the “commercial exception” to foreign sovereign immunity where a lawsuit by oil brokerage companies against Iraq in the U.S. was not based upon commercial activity by Iraq in the U.S. nor upon an act in connection with such commercial activity having a direct effect in the U.S..