Legal Opinion
Preferred Capital, Inc. v. Associates in Urology
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 12, 2006No. 05-3584PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff, Preferred Capital, Inc., appeals the district court Order granting Defendant, Associates in Urology’s Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The district court found that the forum selection clause in the contract between Defendant and Plaintiff, whose interest was assigned to Plaintiff by non-party NorVergence, was unenforceable for being unjust. For the reasons set forth below, we hold that the district court improperly found the forum selection clause to be invalid, and erred in granting Defendant’s motion to dismiss. We…
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