United States Second Circuit

Denial of motion to remand class action -- involving disgruntled customers of Blockbuster alleging that the "no late fee" program is a decptive forced sale scheme -- for lack of federal subject matter jurisdiction to New York state court is vacated as the district court made no findings and offered no explanation as to how it calculated the amount in controversy here to be more than $5 million, the jurisdictional amount.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/03/2006
• Decided 12/26/2006
• Published 12/26/2006

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before CARDAMONE, WALKER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronen Sarraf, New York, N.Y. (Sarraf Gentile LLP, New York, NY;  Michael P. Malakoff, Malakoff Doyle & Finberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael L. Raiff, Dallas, TX (Robert C. Walters, Jennifer B. Poppe, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Dallas, TX;  Steven Paradise, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.