SNIADO v. BANK AUSTRIA AG

Docket No. 02-7012.

352 F.3d 73 (2003)

John L. SNIADO, III, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BANK AUSTRIA AG, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG, Erste Bank Der Österreichisechen Sparkassen AG, Österreichische Postsparkasse, Raiffeisenlandes-Bank Northern Austria-Vienna, Northern Austria Landesbank Hypothekenbank, Österreichische Volksbanken AG, ABN Amro Bank N.V., GWK Bank N.V., Fortis N.V., ING Bank N.V., Banca di Roma SpA, Banca Nazionale del la Voro SpA, Banca Intesta, Deutsche Bank AG, Unicredito Italiano SpA, Defendants-Appellees. Bank Für Arbeit Und Wirthschaft AG, Sanpaolo IMI SpA, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Argued: October 24, 2003.

Decided: November 21, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Hart, Bernard Persky, Goodkind, Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York, N.Y., Douglas G. Thompson, Mila Bartos, Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran, Washington, D.C., Marvin A. Miller, Jennifer Winter Sprengel, Miller Faucher & Cafferty LLP, Chicago, IL, Nicholas Chimicles, James Malone, Jr., Chimicles & Tikellis LLP, Haverford, PA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John H. Shenefield, Johnathan M. Rich, J. Clayton Everett Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, D.C., for Bank Austria AG, Alan M. Unger, James D. Arden, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, New York, N.Y. for Erste Bank der Österreichischen Sparkssen AG, James W. Lowe, Leon B. Greenfield, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., and Paul A. Engelmayer, for Raiffeisin Zentralbank Österreich AG, Raiffeisenlandesbank Northern Austria-Vienna AG, Northern Austria Landesbank-Hypothekenbank AG, and Österreichische Volksbanken AG, Dennis P. Orr, Hector Gonzalez, Sanford I. Weisburst, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, New York, N.Y., for ABN Amro Bank, N.V., Robert A. Horowitz, Karen Y. Bitar, Greenberg Traurig LLP, New York, N.Y., for Fortis N.V. and GWK Bank N.V., Michael S. Shuster, Johnathan Beemer, White & Case, New York, N.Y., for Banca di Roma SpA, Jerome S. Fortinsky, Brian H. Polovoy, Shearman & Sterling LLP, for ING Bank N.V., Gordon B. Nash, Jr., Steven S. Shonder, Gardner Carton & Douglas, Chicago, IL, for Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, SpA, Richard A. Martin, Richard S. Goldstein, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, New York, N.Y., for Banca Intesa, SpA, Richard L. Mattiaccio, Pavia & Hartcourt LLP, New York, N.Y., for Unicredito Italiano SpA, Jeffrey Barist, Charles Westland, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, N.Y., for Deutsche Bank AG, Defendants-Appellees.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant John L. Sniado, III appeals from a decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Schwartz, J.) dismissing his putative class action pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under § 6a(2) of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act ("FTAIA"). See 15 U.S.C. § 6a. In dismissing under § 6a(2), the district court assumed arguendo...

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