Aldabe v. Aster Global Environmental Solutions, Inc.

A federal district court in Florida dismissed a pro se plaintiff’s lawsuit claiming that the defendants breached a contract or was liable for fraudulent misrepresentation related to carbon emission certificates produced by a forestry project in the Amazon. The plaintiff alleged that the certificates were worth more than $8 million and that he had contracted with one of the defendants to provide third-party certification services in order to sell the certificates in the voluntary carbon market. The plaintiff alleged that the other defendants subsequently acquired assets of that defendant. A federal court in Massachusetts previously dismissed a lawsuit brought by the plaintiff for lack of personal jurisdiction and failure of service of process. The Florida federal court agreed with a magistrate judge that the plaintiff failed to adequately allege diversity jurisdiction. The court dismissed the action without prejudice.