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Facts

• The Plaintiff, a majority shareholder of Ute Lake Ranch, Inc. (ULR), a company incorporated in Colorado and doing business in Quay County, filed a derivative claim on behalf of ULR against the Board of County Commissioners for Quay County. The action was dismissed by the district court based on a Colorado court order that appointed a receiver for ULR, granting the receiver exclusive authority over all corporation matters, including litigation (paras 2-3).

Procedural History

• Appeal from the District Court of Quay County, Kea W. Riggs, District Judge: The district court granted the County's motion to dismiss the Plaintiff's complaint.

Parties' Submissions

• Plaintiff-Appellant: Argued that the district court erred in dismissing the case, asserting the right to bring a derivative claim on behalf of ULR despite a Colorado court order appointing a receiver with exclusive authority over corporation matters (para 2).
• Defendant-Appellee: The Board of County Commissioners for Quay County's specific arguments are not detailed in the provided text, but their motion to dismiss was granted by the district court, presumably on the basis that the Plaintiff lacked standing to sue given the Colorado court's appointment of a receiver for ULR (para 1).

Legal Issues

• Whether the district court erred in dismissing the Plaintiff's complaint based on a Colorado court order appointing a receiver for ULR, thereby granting the receiver exclusive authority over all corporation matters, including litigation.

Disposition

• The Court of Appeals of New Mexico affirmed the district court's order granting the County's motion to dismiss the Plaintiff's complaint (para 5).

Reasons

• Per Michael D. Bustamante, J. (M. Monica Zamora, J., and J. Miles Hanisee, J., concurring): The Court held that New Mexico courts give full faith and credit to the judgments of other states unless the judgment is void. The Plaintiff's proper remedy was to seek relief from the Colorado courts rather than attempting to bypass the Colorado court order in New Mexico. The Court found that the exclusive authority granted to the Receiver by the Colorado court precluded the Plaintiff from initiating litigation on ULR's behalf in New Mexico. The Court emphasized that undermining the Colorado court's order by allowing the Plaintiff to proceed in New Mexico would be inappropriate (paras 3-4).