“If the parties, one or more of whom is domiciled in a Member State, have agreed that a court or the courts of a Member State are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which have arisen or which may arise in connection with a particular legal relationship, that court or those courts shall have jurisdiction.
“Conversion of goods can occur in so many different circumstances that framing a precise definition of universal application is well nigh impossible. In general the basic features of the tort are threefold. First, the defendant’s conduct was inconsistent with the rights of the owner (or other persons entitled to possession). Second, the conduct was deliberate, not accidental. Third, the conduct was so extensive an encroachment on the rights of the owner as to exclude him from use and possession of the goods.”
“Whilst it has thus been recognized that the term ‘place where the harmful event occurred’ within the meaning of Article 5(3) … may cover both the place where the damage occurred and the place of the event giving rise to it, that term cannot be construed so extensively as to encompass any place where the adverse consequences can be felt of an event which has already caused damage actually arising elsewhere. Consequently, that term cannot be construed as including the place where … the victim claims to have suffered financial damage following upon initial damage arising and suffered by him in another Contracting State.”
“When a winding-up order has been made … no action or proceeding shall be proceeded with or commenced against the company or its property, except by leave of the court and subject to such terms as the court may impose.”