MBI Group, Inc. v. Credit Foncier Du Cameroun

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs were not entitled to litigate in United States because they “consistently worked to undermine their suit in Cameroon”
• noting that, in general, arguments made for the first time in reply briefs are forfeited
• affirming the district court’s conditional dismissal upon defendants submitting to jurisdiction in Cameroon and on the Cameroonian courts’ acceptance of the case
• noting, in forum non conveniens context, “[t]here is a substantial presumption in favor of a plaintiff’s chosen forum.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• analyzing facts and events not contained within the pleadings that were relevant to the forum non conveniens analysis
• dismissing when witnesses would make a “lengthy trip” to Cameroon and “no similar burden [was] involved in conducting the litigation in Cameroon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).