Legal Opinion
Snöfrost AB v. Håkansson
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 19, 2018No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 18-10798-DPWPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
All the relevant dimensions of this case, except the residence of the defendant, are grounded outside Massachusetts, indeed outside the United States. Yet, the plaintiff, Snöfrost AB, a Swedish company, filed the complaint in this action in this court to enforce an alleged agreement negotiated in Sweden to buy shares in a Swedish company.
In a curious inversion of the reflexive effort by most parties to obtain some perceived, if illusory, "home court" advantage, the defendant, Susanne Håkansson (the only party with Massachusetts contacts) has…
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