032410P.pdf   09/09/2004  Jay Syverson  v.  Firepond, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-2410
                          and No:  03-2415
   District of Minnesota   
   Civil case - contracts. With respect to claims defendants misrepresented 
   lock-up agreement requirements to shareholders in advance of an initial 
   public offering, even if plaintiff could establish that defendants owed 
   them a duty to disclose that not all stockholders had been required to sign 
   the agreements, plaintiffs could not show they reasonably relied on the 
   information, and the district court did not err in dismissing their negligent 
   misrepresentation claims; breach of contract claim was properly 
   dismissed as the oral contract plaintiff relied on was superseded by two 
   other written agreements. Judge Colloton, concurring in part and 
   dissenting in part. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]