CULLIGAN SOFT WATER CO. v. CLAYTON DUBILIER & RICE LLC

12644, 651863/12.

118 A.D.3d 422 (2014)

988 N.Y.S.2d 134

2014 NY Slip Op 3955

CULLIGAN SOFT WATER CO. et al., Appellants, v. CLAYTON DUBILIER & RICE LLC et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided June 3, 2014.


Plaintiffs — minority shareholders of Culligan Ltd. — bring this derivative action on behalf of that entity, a Bermuda company that does business in New York. Supreme Court granted the motion to dismiss upon finding that Bermuda law applied to the case pursuant to the "internal affairs" doctrine. That doctrine "recognizes that only one State should have the authority to regulate a corporation's internal affairs — matters peculiar to the relationships...

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