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Parties Involved:
Ilya Bykov
Appellant
Carlson Companies
Appellee
Carlson Hotels Worldwide
Appellee
Radisson Hotels International
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Ann D. Montgomery, United States District Judge for the

District of Minnesota. 

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 06-2102

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Ilya Bykov, *

*

Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the 

* District of Minnesota.

Radisson Hotels International, Inc.; * [UNPUBLISHED]

Carlson Companies, Inc.; *

Carlson Hotels Worldwide, Inc., *

*

Appellees. *

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Submitted: December 15, 2006

Filed: February 12, 2007

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Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Ilya Bykov appeals from the district court’s1

 grant of summary judgment in

favor of Radisson Hotels International, Inc., Carlson Companies, Inc., and Carlson

Hotels Worldwide, Inc. (collectively, defendants). We affirm.

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This case arises out of Bykov’s stay at the Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya Hotel

& Business Center (the Slavyanskaya) in Moscow, Russia, on February 26, 2005. The

defendants operate the reservation system used by the Slavyanskaya, which includes

the Radisson website via which online reservations for the Slavyanskaya can be made.

 

Prior to his stay at the Slavyanskaya, Bykov had reviewed a printout generated

from the Radisson website stating that the total rate for his stay at the Slavyanskaya

would be 258.42 USD (U.S. dollars). This printout was obtained by one of Bykov’s

employees, Tatiana Gubanova, after she conducted a search for hotels in Moscow.

After reviewing the printout, Bykov decided to stay at the Slavyanskaya and

Gubanova made the reservation for him. 

At the time Bykov’s reservation was made, the Radisson website disclosed that

the Slavyanskaya required charges to be paid in Russian rubles and that the room rate

quoted in dollars would therefore be converted to rubles at the time of payment using

the hotel’s internal exchange rate. Bykov stated that he looked only at the quoted rate

listed on the printout when making his decision to stay at the Slavyanskaya and that

he had never personally visited the Radisson website prior to his stay. Gubanova

acknowledged that she had viewed the website, but has no memory of looking at any

rate information other than the quoted rate listed on the website. She further

acknowledged that she would not have paid attention to this information even if she

had seen it. 

At checkout, Bykov received a bill from the Slavyanskaya showing a charge of

258.42 CU (currency units), which matched the dollar amount he had earlier been

quoted. The bill also reflected the total amount listed in rubles (8269.44), which had

been calculated using the hotel’s internal exchange rate of 32 rubles to one dollar.

When Bykov later received his credit card statement, it correctly reflected a charge of

8269.44 rubles for his stay. The credit card company, however, subsequently

converted this ruble amount to dollars using the official exchange rate (approximately

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27 rubles to one dollar at the time) and charged Bykov $304.32 for his stay. This was

$45.90 more than he had originally been quoted – a difference that can be attributed

to the different exchange rates used by the Slavyanskaya and the credit card company.

Contending that the defendants’ representations on the Radisson website

regarding the room rates at the Slavyanskaya were deceptive and misleading, Bykov

brought this action, asserting claims for violations of the Minnesota Deceptive Trade

Practices Act, MINN. STAT. §§ 325D.44-.48, the Minnesota Prevention of Consumer

Fraud Act, MINN. STAT. §§ 325F.68-.70, the Minnesota False Statement in

Advertisement Act, MINN. STAT. § 325F.67, and a claim for unjust enrichment. The

district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and dismissed all

of Bykov’s claims. In dismissing the consumer protection claims, the court concluded

that Bykov had failed to establish a causal connection between the defendants’ alleged

misrepresentations and his alleged injury because 1) Bykov had never examined the

Radisson website or the other information regarding the Slavyanskaya’s pricing

practice prior to staying at the hotel and 2) Gubanova did not remember reviewing the

other information regarding the hotel’s pricing practice, and stated that she would not

have paid attention to it even if she had seen it. In dismissing the unjust enrichment

claim, the court concluded that Bykov had not established any of the requisite

premises for such a claim and that he also lacked standing because Bykov’s company,

and not Bykov, paid the hotel bill and suffered the alleged injury. 

Having reviewed de novo the district court’s grant of summary judgment,

Johnson v. Hamilton, 452 F.3d 967, 971 (8th Cir. 2006), we conclude that the

dismissal of Bykov’s claims was proper for the reasons set forth by the district court.

Accordingly, we affirm on the basis of the district court’s opinion. See 8th Cir. Rule

47B. 

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