Case Name: Lonnie D. SNELLING, Appellant, v. PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE, INC.; Publishers Clearing House; Campus Subscriptions, Inc.; PHC Executives, Inc.; Deborah J. Holland, Employee; Robin B. Smith, Employee; Andrew C. Goldberg, Employee; Margarete Thuemmler, Employee; Dorothy Addeo, Employee; William Delano, Employee; Peter E. Derow, Employee; Patrick R. Edwards, Employee; Ira D. Hall, Employee; William B. O'Connor, Employee; John Princiotta, Employee, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-03-11
Citations: 90 F. App'x 973
Docket Number: No. 03-2195
Parties: Lonnie D. SNELLING, Appellant, v. PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE, INC.; Publishers Clearing House; Campus Subscriptions, Inc.; PHC Executives, Inc.; Deborah J. Holland, Employee; Robin B. Smith, Employee; Andrew C. Goldberg, Employee; Margarete Thuemmler, Employee; Dorothy Addeo, Employee; William Delano, Employee; Peter E. Derow, Employee; Patrick R. Edwards, Employee; Ira D. Hall, Employee; William B. O’Connor, Employee; John Princiotta, Employee, Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 90
Pages: 973–974

Head Matter:
Lonnie D. SNELLING, Appellant, v. PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE, INC.; Publishers Clearing House; Campus Subscriptions, Inc.; PHC Executives, Inc.; Deborah J. Holland, Employee; Robin B. Smith, Employee; Andrew C. Goldberg, Employee; Margarete Thuemmler, Employee; Dorothy Addeo, Employee; William Delano, Employee; Peter E. Derow, Employee; Patrick R. Edwards, Employee; Ira D. Hall, Employee; William B. O’Connor, Employee; John Princiotta, Employee, Appellees.
No. 03-2195.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 28, 2004.
Decided March 11, 2004.
Lonnie D. Snelling, St. Louis, MO, pro se.
Rebecca Rhodes Jackson, Bryan & Cave, St. Louis, MO, Carolyn W. Jaffe, Morgan & Lewis, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before MELLOY, HANSEN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Lonnie D. Snelling appeals the dismissal of his civil complaint asserting violations of Missouri law and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). After careful review of the record we conclude the district court properly dismissed Snelling's claims against Publishers Clearing House, Inc. for lack of personal jurisdiction. Cf. Keeton v. Hustler Magazine. Inc., 465 U.S. 770, 781 n. 13, 104 S.Ct. 1473, 79 L.Ed.2d 790 (1984). The district court also properly dismissed Snelling's claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress. See Gibson v. Brewer, 952 S.W.2d 239, 248-49 (Mo.1997) (en banc) (to prevail on claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress, plaintiff must show that defendant should have realized its conduct involved unreasonable risk of causing distress, and emotional distress or mental injury must be medically diagnosable and sufficiently severe to be medically significant).
The district court erred, however, in dis1 missing Snelling's fraud and RICO claims. In doing so, the court relied on exhibits defendants submitted in support of their motion to dismiss, but Snelling had disputed the authenticity of these exhibits. In these circumstances, the district court should have converted the motion to one for summary judgment and allowed Snelling to respond, or it should have ruled on the motion to dismiss without considering defendants' exhibits. We cannot say this error was harmless. Cf. Country Club Estates, L.L.C. v. Toum of Loma Linda, 213 F.3d 1001, 1005-06 (8th Cir.2000) (failure to afford any notice, actual or constructive, that motion to dismiss would be treated as one for summary judgment required reversal where nonmovants asserted on appeal that they could have produced countervailing affidavits, and it could not be said that outcome would necessarily be in movants' favor).
Accordingly, we affirm in part and remand for further proceedings on the fraud and RICO claims.