Legal Opinion
John R. Neal and Lea A. Neal v. Sjef Janssen
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 23, 2001No. 00-6122PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
This tort action for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty was brought by plaintiffs, John Neal and his daughter Lea Anne, residents of Tennessee, against Sjéf Jans-sen, a citizen of Belgium. The sole issue on appeal is whether the district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over defendant.
Plaintiffs owned a dressage horse named “Aristocrat” that they wished to sell. Aristocrat was boarded in the Netherlands at the time relevant to this cause of action. In 1997 plaintiffs met with defendant in Florida, where defendant had a house, and arranged for him to…
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