Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq

Issues: (1) Whether, in a breach of contract case under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s third clause, it is sufficient to prove a “direct effect” in the United States applying traditional causation principles, or instead courts must make an additional finding that the contract at issue established or necessarily contemplated the United States as a place of performance; and (2) whether the “act performed in the United States” giving rise to jurisdiction in an action under the statute’s second clause must be an “act” by the foreign sovereign, or instead the statute’s text contains no such limitation.