The Plaintiff gave his consent for this conversion, as required under the operating agreement. However, after raising funds, SportTechie converted from a limited liability company to a corporation. The original operating agreement of the limited liability company gave the Plaintiff rights to veto major decisions. Defendant Bodie was a director of SportTechie as a designee of Oak View, and was also the President of Business Development for Oak View. Defendant Oak View is a Delaware limited liability company that is a controlling investor in SportTechie. He was the sole in-house attorney at SportTechie at all relevant times and currently serves as Managing Director of SportTechie. Defendant Kaufman was an employee, officer, and stockholder of SportTechie. SportTechie originally formed as a limited liability company which was 55% owned by Bloom and 45% owned by the Plaintiff. SportTechie primarily was a news source that reported on the technology aspects of sports that the Plaintiff co-founded with Bloom and in which he was the its Chief Operating Officer until March 2017. SportTechie was a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Washington, D.C. (“SportTechie or the “Company”), and the Court allowed most of the Plaintiff’s claims to survive the 12(b)(6) motion but dismissed a small number as well. The claims stemmed from the Plaintiff’s termination and subsequent forced sale of shares in SportTechie, Inc. 2018-0869-AGB, the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”), generally held that Simon Ogus (the “Plaintiff”), pled sufficiently claims for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, aiding and abetting, civil conspiracy and breach of contract against Oak View Group, LLC (“Oak View”) and individuals Taylor Bloom, Francesca Bodie, Daniel Kaufman (each a “Defendant” and together the “Defendants”). SportTechie, Inc., memorandum opinion 200131, C.A.
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