Legal Opinion
American Greetings Corporation v. Gerald A. Cohn
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 8, 1988No. 86-3902PublishedCited by 285 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Chief Judge.
This appeal requires us to determine the reach of Ohio’s long-arm statute in a somewhat unusual fact setting. The plaintiff is an Ohio corporation and the defendant is a nonresident shareholder who threatened a suit to have an amendment to the plaintiff’s articles of incorporation declared invalid under Ohio law unless the plaintiff agreed either to rescind the amendment or pay the defendant a substantial sum of money. The plaintiff responded by filing this diversity action in the district court, seeking a declaration that the amendment is valid. The district court,…
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