Case Name: EB-BRAN PRODUCTIONS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WARNER/ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees; Eb-Bran Productions, Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, Incorporated; Cinram International; Ivy Hill Corporation; Atlantic Recording; Lava Records; Warner Media Services; John Doe; Jane Doe; Top Dog Records, Incorporated; Robert J. Ritchie, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-06-19
Citations: 242 F. App'x 311
Docket Number: Nos. 05-2699, 06-1670
Parties: EB-BRAN PRODUCTIONS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WARNER/ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Eb-Bran Productions, Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, Incorporated; Cinram International; Ivy Hill Corporation; Atlantic Recording; Lava Records; Warner Media Services; John Doe; Jane Doe; Top Dog Records, Incorporated; Robert J. Ritchie, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: ROGERS and COOK, Circuit Judges; and DOWD, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 242
Pages: 311–313

Head Matter:
EB-BRAN PRODUCTIONS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WARNER/ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Eb-Bran Productions, Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, Incorporated; Cinram International; Ivy Hill Corporation; Atlantic Recording; Lava Records; Warner Media Services; John Doe; Jane Doe; Top Dog Records, Incorporated; Robert J. Ritchie, Defendants-Appellees.
Nos. 05-2699, 06-1670.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
June 19, 2007.
Before: ROGERS and COOK, Circuit Judges; and DOWD, District Judge.
The Honorable David D. Dowd, Jr., Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Eb-Bran Productions, Inc. ("Eb-Bran") appeals the district court's orders denying its motion to remand and granting the defendants' motion for summary judgment. Eb-Bran's attorneys appeal the district court's order granting the defendants' motion for sanctions pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 11. Having reviewed the record and the applicable law, and with the benefit of the parties' briefs, we determine that no jurisprudential purpose would be served by a lengthy panel opinion. With the following qualification, we affirm the district court's judgments for the reasons stated in that court's opinions.
In granting summary judgment against Eb-Bran, the district court concluded that (1) the res judicata effect of Ritchie v. Williams (Ritchie I), 395 F.3d 283 (6th Cir.2005), barred the claims against Ritchie, Top Dog, Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp., Warner Media Services, Lava Records, Ivy Hill, Inc., and Cinram International; (2) the res judicata effect of the pre-removal state-court proceedings in Ritchie I barred the claims against Warner-Tamerlane; and (3) a stipulated order entered by the district court in Ritchie I barred Eb-Bran's claim against Atlantic Recording Corp. We express no opinion on the overall soundness of the district court's res judicata analysis: Eb-Bran makes a proper challenge to only one aspect of the analysis, and that challenge fails, so we affirm.
The only res judicata argument Eb-Bran properly raises on appeal is that under Michigan law, a dismissal based on the statute of limitations is not a decision "on the merits." See Verbrugghe v. Select Specialty Hosp., 270 Mich.App. 383, 715 N.W.2d 72, 80 (2006). No matter which of the defendants Eb-Bran means to target with this argument, it fails. Warner-Tamerlane was dismissed from the pre-removal state-court litigation because Eb-Bran failed to state a claim against it, not because of the statute of limitations. As for the remaining defendants, Michigan's characterization of a judgment based on the statute of limitations is unimportant because a federal court applies federal law in determining the preclusive effect of a prior federal judgment (like Ritchie I), at least where jurisdiction in the prior litigation was based on a federal question. See Blonder-Tongue Labs., Inc. v. Univ. of Ill. Found., 402 U.S. 313, 324 n. 12, 91 S.Ct. 1434, 28 L.Ed.2d 788 (1971) ("It has been held in non-diversity cases since Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, that the federal courts will apply their own rule of res judicata." (citation omitted)); Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 87 ("Federal law deter mines the effects under the rules of res judicata of a judgment of a federal court."); Remus Joint Venture v. McAnally, 116 F.3d 180, 184 n. 5 (6th Cir.1997) (endorsing § 87); cf. J.Z.G. Res., Inc. v. Shelby Ins. Co., 84 F.3d 211, 213 (6th Cir.1996) (endorsing § 87 in the context of successive diversity actions). Under fed eral law, summary judgment based on the statute of limitations is a final judgment on the merits for res judicata purposes. Nathan v. Rowan, 651 F.2d 1223, 1226 (6th Cir.1981).
All of Eb-Bran's other res judicata arguments are either woefully underdeveloped or raised for the first time in the reply brief. The former are deemed waived, e.g., McPherson v. Kelsey, 125 F.3d 989, 995-96 (6th Cir.1997), and we may — and do — decline to consider the latter, e.g., Osborne v. Hartford Life and Accident Ins. Co., 465 F.3d 296, 301 (6th Cir.2006); Radvansky v. City of Olmsted Falls, 395 F.3d 291, 318 & n. 23 (6th Cir.2005) (citing Fed. R.App. P. 28 and other authority).
Finally, the stipulated order entered by the district court in Ritchie I precludes Eb-Bran's suit against Atlantic Recording Corp.
With the foregoing additional reasoning, we affirm the judgments of the district court and deny all pending motions.