St. Paul Guardian Insurance v. Neuromed Medical Systems & Support
St. Paul Guardian Insurance v. Neuromed Medical Systems & Support
Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be, and it hereby is, affirmed.
The plaintiffs appeal from an April 2, 2002, judgment granting the defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss their complaint claiming breach of contract and negligence. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The subject of the dispute is a mobile magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system, which was damaged due to cold weather after the defendant delivered it to the port of shipment in Antwerp. Applying German law under the contract’s choice-of-law provision, the district court concluded that the contract’s risk-of-loss provision precluded recovery by the plaintiffs. St. Paul Guardian Ins. Co. v. Neuromed Med. Sys. & Support, GmbH, No. 00 Civ. 9344, 2002 WL 465312, at *3-*6, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5096, at *6-*17 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 26, 2002). The court also concluded that the contract’s “CIF” term relieved the defendant of responsibility for damage that occurred after the MRI system passed the ship’s rail at the port of shipment, see id. at *1, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5096, at *3, at which point the MRI was fully functional, according to the complaint, see Compl. 1132. For substantially the reasons set forth in the district court’s opinion, we affirm the dismissal of the complaint.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.
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