U.S. Vestor, LLC v. Biodata Information Technology AG
Opinion
Opinion
Larson, J.
DISMISSAL
Granting Docket # 12,
Introduction
The motion to dismiss of individual defendants Claus Platen, Tan Siekmann and Peter Trautmann and corporate defendant Biodata Systems Gmbh (formerly known as BS Systems Gmbh) came on for hearing before this court on July 30, 2003. Jack P. McCowan and Brian P. Maschler, GORDON & REES LLP, appeared for Defendants. Patrick C. Campbell, LAW OFFICES OF PATRICK C. CAMPBELL, appeared for Plaintiffs Altura S. Ewers and Biodata Information Technology North America (“BITNA”).
Plaintiff asks this Court to redress the wrongs done to him by Defendants, German businessmen and German corporations. He claims they conspired to prevent him from acquiring BITNA, the American subsidiary of a German company, Biodata Information Technology AG. According to Plaintiff, Defendants bled BITNA dry, stole its customers and left him with nothing. He is neither an owner nor a shareholder of either company. He is the only party who resides in the U.S. All the individual and corporate defendants are in Germany. He asks this Court to overlook or overrule the decisions of the German Insolvency Administrator who presided over the reorganization of Bioda-ta AG,…