Case Name: KM ENTERPRISES, INC., an Illinois corporation, and Rodney Kris Morgan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GLOBAL TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Global Traffic Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-03-28
Citations: 685 F. App'x 582
Docket Number: No. 15-15865
Parties: KM ENTERPRISES, INC., an Illinois corporation, and Rodney Kris Morgan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GLOBAL TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Global Traffic Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, MURGUIA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 685
Pages: 582–583

Head Matter:
KM ENTERPRISES, INC., an Illinois corporation, and Rodney Kris Morgan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GLOBAL TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Global Traffic Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 15-15865
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted March 15, 2017 San Francisco, California
Filed March 28, 2017
Jana Yocom Rine, Yocom Rine Law Office, Mount Vernon, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants
Chad M. Drown, Calvin L. Litsey, Lauren J. Frank, James Poradek, Eva B. Stensvad, Attorney, Faegre Baker Daniels, Minneapolis, MN, Helen E. Chacon, Faegre Baker Daniels, East Palo Alto, CA, for Defendants-Appellees
Before: FERNANDEZ, MURGUIA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
1. The district court did not err by granting defendants' motion to dismiss. Defendants argued that plaintiffs' action was barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion, based on an earlier judgment entered against plaintiffs by the District Court for the District of Minnesota. In support of that argument, defendants identified several allegations supporting plaintiffs' claims in this case that overlapped with the allegations asserted by plaintiffs in the Minnesota case. Defendants also argued that to the extent plaintiffs had not brought the claims previously, plaintiffs could have brought their antitrust claims in the Minnesota litigation, and that this also had equivalent claim-preclusive effect. Plaintiffs did not meaningfully contest defendants' claim preclusion arguments in their opposition to the motion to dismiss and, on their face at least, defendants' arguments appeared meritorious.
2. The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying plaintiffs' motion to alter or amend the judgment. In their motion, plaintiffs asserted for the first time a potentially valid response to defendants' arguments that claim preclusion applied. But plaintiffs offered no explanation for failing to assert that response in their opposition to the motion to dismiss. As a result, the district court was under no obligation to entertain their untimely post-judgment arguments. See Ramona Equipment Rental, Inc. v. Carolina Casualty Insurance Company, 755 F.3d 1063, 1070 (9th Cir. 2014); see also Beech Aircraft Corp. v. United States, 51 F.3d 834, 841 (9th Cir. 1995) (appellate court has no obligation to consider arguments on appeal that could have been raised below but were not).
AFFIRMED.
Plaintiffs' motion to strike portions of defendants' supplemental excerpts of record is DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.