International Business 13th Edition by Donald Ball,Michael Geringer,Michael Minor ,Jeanne McNett

Exercise 15

A California-based company is expanding very well and has just made its first large export sale. All of its sales and procurement contracts up to now have contained a clause providing that if any disputes arise under the contract, they will be settled under California law and that any litigation will be in California courts.
The new foreign customer, who is Italian, objects to these all-California solutions. She says she is buying and paying for a large volume of the products, so before finalizing the sales contract she says that the California company should compromise and allow Italian law and courts to govern and handle any disputes.
In deciding whether to only use California law for settling litigation or to allow the foreign customer's home nation of Italy as the venue for litigation, would your analysis be any different if the customer was from China? From Russia? From the United Kingdom? Why or why not?