Judgment_paragraph 20 · Solvay SA v Honeywell Fluorine Products Europe BV and Others (C-616/10)

20Moreover, that special rule of jurisdiction must be interpreted in the light, first, of recital 11 in the preamble to Regulation No 44/2001, according to which the rules of jurisdiction must be highly predictable and founded on the principle that jurisdiction is generally based on the defendant’s domicile and jurisdiction must always be available on this ground save in a few well-defined situations in which the subject-matter of the litigation or the autonomy of the parties warrants a different linking factor (see Case C-98/06 Freeport [2007] ECR I-8319, paragraph 36).