  Among a hundred transiting planets with a measured projected spin-orbit angle
{\lambda}, several systems are suggested to be counter-orbiting. While they may
be due to the projection effect, the mechanism to produce a counter-orbiting
planet is not established. A promising scenario for the counter-orbiting
planets is the extreme eccentricity evolution in near-coplanar hierarchical
triple systems with eccentric inner and outer or- bits. We examine this
scenario in detail by performing a series of systematic numerical simulations,
and consider the possibility of forming hot Jupiters, especially counter-
orbiting one under this mechanism with a distant sub-stellar perturber. We
incorporate quadrupole and octupole secular gravitational interaction between
the two orbits, and also short-range forces (correction for general relativity,
star and inner planetary tide and rotational distortion) simultaneously. We
find that most of systems are tidally disrupted and that a small fraction of
survived planets turns out to be prograde. The formation of counter-orbiting
hot Jupiters in this scenario is possible only in a very restricted parameter
region, and thus very unlikely in practice.
