Alere, Inc. v. Wallace

Leibensperger, Edward P., J.

Defendants sold their company, based in Florida, to plaintiff Alere, Inc., a company headquartered in Massachusetts, pursuant to a written Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (“Purchase Agreement”). Alere now alleges that defendants breached their obligations under the Purchase Agreement by violating a noncompetition covenant. Defendants move, pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2), to dismiss contending that the court lacks personal jurisdiction over them or, in the alternative, that the dismissal is warranted under the doctrine offorum non conveniens. For the…