Commerzbank (Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Jurisdiction - Judgment)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Judicial cooperation in civil matters – Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments – Civil and commercial matters – Lugano II Convention – Article 15(1)(c) – Jurisdiction over consumer contracts – Transfer of the consumer’s domicile to another State bound by the convention)

REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice, Germany), made by decision of 12 May 2020, received at the Court on 3 July 2020, in the proceedings

composed of L. Bay Larsen, President of the Chamber, C. Toader (Rapporteur) and M. Safjan, Judges,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 9 September 2021,

This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of the Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, signed on 30 October 2007, the conclusion of which was approved on behalf of the European Community by Council Decision 2009/430/EC of 27 November 2008 (OJ 2009 L 147, p. 1) (‘the Lugano II Convention’), and, in particular, of Article 15(1)(c) and Article 16(2) thereof.