30Thus, according to settled case-law, the system of common rules of conferment of jurisdiction laid down in Title II of Regulation No 44/2001 is based on the general rule, set out in the first paragraph of Article 2(1), that persons domiciled in a Member State are to be sued in the courts of that State, irrespective of the nationality of the parties. It is only by way of derogation from that fundamental principle attributing jurisdiction to the courts of the defendant’s domicile that Section 2 of Title II of Regulation No 44/2001 makes provision for certain special jurisdictional rules, such as that laid down in Article 5(3) of the Convention (see, to that effect, Zuid-Chemie, paragraphs 20 and 21, and Case C-144/10 BVG [2011] ECR I-3961, paragraph 30 and the case-law cited).
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