United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on breach-of-contract claim is affirmed where plaintiff has failed to satisfy the burden necessary to bring this claim to trial, however, conversion claim prompts certification of the following question to the New York Court of Appeals: Is a claim of conversion cognizable for electronic data?

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2006
• Published 08/21/2006

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before WINTER, CALABRESI, POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William P. Tedards, Jr., Washington, D.C. (Leo G. Finucane, Finucane & Hartzell, LLP, Pittsford, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ben M. Krowicki, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellees.