Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) · ¶35

The FSIA establishes a “baseline principle of immunity for foreign states and their instrumentalities.” Turkiye Halk Bankasi, 598 U. S., at 272 (citing 28 U. S. C. §1604). In particular, under the FSIA, courts lack subject-matter jurisdiction over suits against a foreign state, or against its agencies or instrumentalities, unless an enumerated exception applies. See CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd. v. Antrix Corp., 605 U. S. 223, 234 (2025); 28 U. S. C. §§1330(a), 1605–1607. And the FSIA transferred “primary responsibility for deciding claims of foreign states to immunity from the State Department to the courts.” Samantar, 560 U. S., at 313 (quotation marks omitted).

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