Summary
Under Art. 31 of Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, Italian courts do not have jurisdiction to issue a provisional seizing order against a Czech defendant in relation to an international contract for the construction of automobiles, as neither such provisional measure is to be enforced in Italy, the goods subject to seizure being in the Czech Republic, nor Italian courts have jurisdiction over future proceedings for the merits, a choice-of-court clause, validly concluded under Art. 23(a) and (c) of the same regulation, conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon the Czech court territorially competent over the defendant’s domicile for any disputes arising from the contract is contained in the general terms and conditions which the final contract between the parties refers to (so-called relatio perfecta).