ORDER AND JUDGMENT **

Plaintiff-Appellant Franklin S. Simms appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his pro se civil rights complaint which sought compensatory and punitive damages and injunctive relief in connection *798 with theft of his property by Defendant Elms Apartments and denial of a claim by Defendant State Farm Insurance. After granting in forma pauperis status, the district court dismissed the case as frivolous. R. 16.

Regarding his appeal, Mr. Simms claims that the district court had subject matter jurisdiction because State Farm transferred his claim to Missouri and because he was deprived of his property and a jury trial in violation of the Constitution. The fact that his claim was transferred to Missouri is insufficient to create a federal question, nor is the deprivation of property by private actors. See Shelley v. Kraemer, 834 U.S. 1, 13, 68 S.Ct. 836, 92 L.Ed. 1161 (1948). Any right to a jury trial would be in aid of a federal claim, the stated basis of the suit. Accordingly, the proper resolution of this case is to dismiss Mr. Simms’s complaint without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

We REVERSE the district court’s judgment and REMAND with instructions to dismiss Mr. Simms’s complaint without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.