Van Kooten Holding B v. v. Dumarco Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETZENDANNER, District Judge:

The plaintiff Van Kooten Holding B.V. filed this action to register and enforce a judgment originally entered in its favor in The Netherlands. The defendant Dumarco Corporation has filed a counterclaim alleging breach of contract. Currently before the court is the plaintiff’s motion to dismiss defendant’s breach of contract counterclaim. The motion is based on an Illinois law which, according to plaintiff, regulates the enforceability of foreign judgments and bars the defendant from bringing its counterclaim which it could have raised…