Press Release: Judgment in Case C-543/10. Refcomp SpA v Axa Corporate Solutions Assurance SA, Axa France IARD, Emerson Network and Climaveneta SpA

In the context of successive contracts concluded between parties established in different Member States, a jurisdiction clause incorporated in a contract for sale between the manufacturer and the buyer of goods cannot be relied on by a subbuyer of those goods, unless he has agreed to that clause.