Note:
Jim Breckenridge, The Other Half of Executive Jet: The New Rationality in Admiralty Jurisdiction, 57 Texas L. Rev. 977 (1979).
 

Abstract:
In “The Other Half of Execute Jet,” Jim Breckenridge argues that admiralty jurisdiction for commercial tort and contract litigation should be based not upon arbitrary illogical and amorphous distinctions, but instead upon the relationship of the tort or contract to the needs of maritime commerce. Breckenridge examines the principles that would compose a comprehensive test for admiralty jurisdiction. He then applies this purposive new rationality to developments in specific areas of commercial litigation in admiralty jurisdiction. Breckenridge concludes that in Executive Jet the Supreme Court took an important step toward the rationalization of federal admiralty jurisdiction in accordance with accepted principles of federalism, and that an explicit recognition of a single, purposive test for admiralty jurisdiction over both tort and contract actions is more than long overdue.