https://www.ravellaw.com/opinions/fd18c3d9e67491a535db1757b8749329

SNIP- "MEMORANDUM OPINION HILTON, District Judge.¶1 This matter came before the court on defendant Trammell Crow Asset Company's motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff Robert Mr. Hamady is a real estate broker for First National Real Estate Corporation. In the summer of 1991, Mr. Hamady heard a rumor from a friend who worked at the District of Columbia Ramada Inn that the government of Saudi Arabia was in search of office space to expand its embassy in Washington, D.C. With this information and nothing more, Mr. Hamady set out to find the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia new office space and began examining office buildings in Washington, D.C. "

SNIP- "This unidentified man referred Mr. Hamady to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Real Estate Division which handles real estate transactions for foreign governments and their embassies in the United States."

SNIP- "The broker in the sale was Spaulding & Slye Colliers, which had been retained by the Army Corps of Engineers in July 1991 to locate an appropriate site for the Saudis. The first offer for the building by the Saudis was presented to defendant by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on March 30, 1992. In September 1991, when Mr. Hamady told Mr. Roth that he was the Saudi Arabian Kingdom's exclusive agent, Spaulding & Slye Colliers actually was that agent. Mr. Hamady had nothing to do with the sale."