United States Second Circuit

In suit alleging defendant elevator companies conspired to engage in anticompetitive conduct and to unilaterally monopolize and attempt to monopolize the maintenance market for their elevators, judgment granting defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint and denying leave to re-plead is affirmed as the conspiracy claims provide no plausible ground to support the inference of an unlawful agreement, and the allegations of unilateral monopolization fail to allege a prior course of dealing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2007
• Published 09/04/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, STRAUB and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric Alan Isaacson (Mark Solomon, Christopher M. Burke, David W. Mitchell, Tami Falkenstein Hennick, on the brief), Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Mary Jane Fait, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Nadeem Faruqi, Antonio Vozzolo, Beth A. Keller, Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Leddy (Leah Brannon, on the brief), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees United Technologies Corporation and Otis Elevator Company., Kenneth M. Kramer (Jerome S. Fortinsky, Paula Howell, on the brief), Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Schindler Holding Ltd. and Schindler Elevator Corporation., Gerald Zingone (Michael Evan Jaffe, on the brief), Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Kone Corporation and Kone, Inc., Terry Myers (Anthony A. Dean, on the brief), Gibbons Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee ThyssenKrupp AG., Scott Martin (Christopher V. Roberts, on the brief), Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees ThyssenKrupp Elevator Capital Corp., and ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corp., A. Paul Victor, Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees ThyssenKrupp Elevator Capital Corp., and ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corp.