The Amsterdam District Court declined jurisdiction over all non-Dutch defendants in proceedings for compensation of damage based partly on an infringement of Article 101 TFEU. The proceedings were initiated by four public utility companies from the Gulf States. The court rejected the claimants' argument that jurisdiction over the foreign defendants could be based on Article 8(1) Brussels I Regulation and found there was no sufficiently close connection between the claims against the Dutch defendants and those against the foreign defendants.