Legal Opinion
Behm v. John Nuveen & Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided October 22, 1996No. C3-96-315PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARTEN, Judge.
Shareholder and Illinois resident Ivan Behm appeals dismissal of his class action lawsuit against two Delaware corporations and nine officers and directors who are nonresidents of Minnesota. The district court based the dismissal on independent grounds of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens. Because we agree with the district court that appellant has not established respondents’ minimum jurisdictional contacts with Minnesota and that the Illinois federal district court is the more convenient forum, we affirm.
FACTS
Appellant shareholder Ivan Behm brought…
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