17According to the Court’s settled case-law, the system of common rules on conferment of jurisdiction laid down in Chapter II of the Brussels I Regulation is based on the general rule, set out in 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 the general rule attributing jurisdiction to the courts of the defendant’s domicile that Section 2 of Chapter II of the Brussels I Regulation makes provision for certain special jurisdictional rules, such as that laid down in Article 5(3) of the regulation (see, to this effect, in particular judgments of 16 July 2009 in Zuid-Chemie, C‑189/08, EU:C:2009:475, paragraphs 20 and 21, and of 18 July 2013 in ÖFAB, C‑147/12, EU:C:2013:490, paragraph 30).
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