Summary

Plaintiff Konoike Construction Co. Limited ("Konoike" or "plaintiff") filed this action to confirm an arbitral award entered in its favor by the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration ("ICC"). The ICC determined that defendants, the Ministry of Works of Tanzania, the Tanzanian National Roads Agency, the Ministry of Transport of Tanzania, and the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania (collectively, "Tanzania" or "defendants"), owed Konoike outstanding payments on a road construction contract. After the deadline to respond to Konoike's petition to confirm its arbitral award passed without response, the Clerk of the Court declared each defendant in default, and Konoike moved for entry of a default judgment. Konoike's motion prompted Tanzania to begin participating in this case: Tanzania opposed the motion for default judgment and, in its opposition brief, asked that its default be set aside...