Corporations Keyed to Klein
McConnell v. Hunt Sports Ent
Facts
In 1996,the National Hockey League notified leaders of various cities that the league would be adding several franchises. When the mayor of Columbus was contacted, he in turn contacted McConnell and Ronald Pizzuti. Pizzuti contacted several other people, including Hunt, and a consortium of groups formed an LLC, Columbus Hockey Limited (CHL) for the purpose of obtaining a franchise for Columbus. Each member of CHL contributed part of the $100,000 application fee for the franchise. A referendum to finance a facility for the team failed to pass, and another party, Nationwide Insurance, worked with Hunt, who was very visible in the negotiations and had prior experience as a sports franchise owner, on obtaining a facility through private financing. The commissioner of the NHL began giving Columbus deadlines to have a proposal, but Hunt started rejected several leasing proposals for the new facility. When a deal seemed to be in jeopardy, Nationwide contacted McConnell, and Mc Connell decided that he would personally move forward on a deal if CHL would not. CHL did not respond to Nationwide’s deadline of May 30th, and the NHL’s deadline was only a few days away (June 4th), so Nationwide notified the NHL that McConnell would apply for the franchise if CHL would not. On June 4th, Nationwide let the NHL know that McConnell would apply, so the NHL awarded Columbus, led by McConnell, a franchise. Other members of CHL entered with McConnell, and Appellants brought this action against the group. Appellees asserted that Article 3.3 in the LLC allowed for members to compete directly with the LLC, while Appellants claimed that Appellees violated their fiduciary duty to CHL, and that Article 3.3 did not allow for Appellees to compete against CHL. Appellees counterclaimed to dissolve CHL based upon Hunt’s conduct.
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