Amyris Must Transfer Lavvan Meeting Recording Claims to New York

Amyris Inc. lost an appeal to keep its call recording lawsuit against Lavvan Inc. in California and must transfer its claims to New York, where Lavvan is suing for $880 million over alleged intellectual property and contract violations stemming from a cannabis chemicals deal.

Amyris’s claims aren’t excluded from the parties’ research, collaboration, and license agreement requiring “any dispute arising out of” the agreement to be submitted to any state or federal court in New York County because California courts have repeatedly construed “arising out of” language broadly, the California Court of Appeal, First District, ruled Tuesday.

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