Following graduation, you become employed by a corporation that specializes in the manufacture and exporting of oil drilling equipment. Your company enters into a contract to sell US$1.5 million-worth of equipment to the French government, which is engaged in oil drilling operations in Nigeria. To save legal costs, the company uses the same contract as they used when dealing with a company in Scotland that bought similar equipment. The terms are in English, and the amount of the contract is set forth in US dollars. There are no provisions concerning language, legal forum, or applicable law. The French government accepts the equipment but refuses to pay. Your company brings a lawsuit against the French government in a US court to enforce the agreement.

1. The French government does not agree that US contract law should apply and claims that the France law is the correct set of laws to govern the dispute. Even if French law is ruled inapplicable, the French government argues that, because the contract is carried out through drilling operations in Nigeria, Nigerian law should be used instead of US law. What is your company's defense to these claims? How should the court rule on this issue?