Contract – Drug Research Study Agreement – Breach – Fraud – Dismissal

We uphold the Business Court’s decision (The greater availability of witnesses in Europe to testify on a breach claim arising from a contract subject to English law meant that England was a more convenient forum than North Carolina. We grant defendants’ motion to stay the action on grounds of forum non conveniens.).

Cardiorentis AG v. IQVIA Ltd. (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-013-20, 24 pp.) (Per curiam) On appeal from the Superior Court in Durham County (Adam Conrad, J.) J. Dickson Phillips, Jonathan Krisko and Catherine Stetson for plaintiff; Charles Marshall, Shepard O’Connell, Michael Klisch, Joshua Siegel and Robert Cahill for defendants. N.C. S. Ct.