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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

DALLAS DIVISION

SUPER FUTURE EQUITIES, INC.

Plaintiff,

v.

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., ORIX

CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC, ORIX USA

CORPORATION, ORIX MARKETS

PARTNERSHIP, JOHN DINAN,

MICHAEL F. WURST, CLIFFORD

WEINER, and JAMES R. THOMPSON

Defendants.

3-06-CV-0271-B

ECF

ORIX CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC’S RESPONSE TO COUNTER-DEFENDANTS’

MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

TO THE HONORABLE COURT:

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(b) and Local Rules of the United States

District Court for the Northern District of Texas 56.3 and 56.5, Counter-Plaintiff ORIX Capital

Markets, LLC (“ORIX Capital”) files this Response to Counter-Defendants’ Motion for

Summary Judgment, and respectfully shows the Court as follows:

For the reasons set forth in ORIX Capital’s Brief in Opposition to Counter-Defendants’

Motion for Summary Judgment, filed under seal contemporaneously with this Response to

Counter-Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment, and in the evidence included in ORIX

Capital’s Appendix in Support of Their Brief in Opposition to Counter-Defendants’ Motion for

Summary Judgment Filed Under Seal, the Counter-Defendants are not entitled to summary

judgment because the Counter-Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment fails to satisfy their

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initial burden of demonstrating an absence of evidence to support ORIX Capital’s claims.

Therefore, Counter-Defendants’ conclusory assertions that there is “no evidence” to support the

claims against them is fatally deficient. Secondly, there are genuine issues of fact on each

element of ORIX Capital’s causes of action for (1) libel per se; (2) business disparagement; (3)

tortious interference with contract; (4) copyright infringement; and (5) conspiracy.

Pursuant to Local Rule of the United States District Court for the Northern District of

Texas 56.3(b), the legal and factual grounds for ORIX Capital’s Opposition to CounterDefendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment are set forth in its Brief in Opposition to CounterDefendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment Filed Under Seal and the evidence supporting this

Response to Counter-Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment is included in ORIX Capital’s

Appendix in Support of its Brief in Opposition to Counter-Defendants’ Motion for Summary

Judgment, also filed under seal, contemporaneously with this Response Motion.

ORIX Capital, therefore, respectfully requests that the Court deny Counter-Defendants’

Motion for Summary Judgment and issue an order denying Counter-Defendants’ Motion for

Summary Judgment.

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Dated: August 23, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

By: /s/ Kelly R. Vickers

Paul E. Coggins

State Bar No. 04504700

Beth G. Jaynes

State Bar No. 08052020

Victor C. Johnson

State Bar No. 24029640

Kelly R. Vickers

State Bar No. 24041827

1717 Main Street

Suite 5000

Dallas, Texas 75201

(214) 747-5070

(214) 747-2091 - facsimile

Counsel for Defendants

ORIX CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC, ORIX

USA CORPORATION, JOHN DINAN,

MICHAEL F. WURST, CLIFFORD WEINER,

AND JAMES R. THOMPSON

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that a true and correct copy of the above and

foregoing document has been served on August 23, 2007 to all counsel of record who are

deemed to have consented to electronic service via the Court’s CM/ECF system. Any

other counsel of record will be served by First Class Mail.

Linda R. Stahl

Gerald C. Conley

Andrews & Kurth L.L.P.

1717 Main Street

Suite 3700

Dallas, TX 75201

Defendant

Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota

Jon P. Bohn

Bohn & Ducloux

806 Main, Suite 1411

Houston, Texas 77002

Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendant

Super Future Equities; Schumann

Rafizadeh; Thomas Arjmandi; Keon

Arjmandi

Jeffrey W. Glass

Jeffrey W. Glass, P.C.

8980 Lakes at 610 Drive, Suite 250

Houston, Texas 77054

Attorney for

D.R. and Cyrus Rafizadeh

James W. Karel

Karel & Associates, P.C.

3838 Oak Lawn, Suite 1700

Dallas, Texas 75219

Attorney for Plaintiff/Counterclaim

Defendant

Timothy Gavin

Richard Rohan

Charles J. Blanchard

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal,

L.L.P.

901 Main Street

Suite 5500

Dallas, TX 75202

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterclaim

Defendant

Super Future Equities; Schumann

Rafizadeh; Thomas Arjmandi; Keon

Arjmandi; D.R. and Cyrus Rafizadeh

/s/ Kelly R. Vickers

Kelly R. Vickers

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