ST. LOUIS – Animal feed additive company Nutra-Blend LLC filed a lawsuit in federal court on Sept. 25 against Missouri-based Animal Nutrition Inc., alleging that it failed to pay for products it received and subsequently sold to its customers.
According to Nutra-Blend's lawsuit filed on its behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by its counsel, Jonathan C. Meisen of Arden Hills, it sold animal feed additives and other products to the defendant on credit between June 2016 and November 2016.
Animal Nutrition allegedly has an outstanding “net, unpaid purchase price” with Nutra-Blend in the amount of $109,765.81, according to the filing.
“Despite demand,” said the filing, “Animal Nutrition has failed and refused to pay the balance of the purchase price due for the products.”
Animal Nutrition, an animal feed additive product company, allegedly received and accepted the products from Nutra-Blend and received “invoices and account statements itemizing the amounts due under its account,” the suit states.
The plaintiff filed three counts against the defendant Animal Nutrition, which lists its principal place of business as Kirkwood. The counts are breach of contract, action for the price and account stated.
“Animal Nutrition breached its contractual obligations to Nutra-Blend by failing to pay the balance of the purchase price due for the products,” the suit noted.
Nutra-Blend is seeking monetary damages against the defendant in the principal amount of $109,765.81, prejudgment interest, as well as attorneys’ fees, costs and disbursements.
Plaintiff Nutra-Blend listed its “sole member” as Purina Animal Nutrition LLC in the filing. Purina’s members are listed in the filing as Land O’Lakes Inc. and Delaware-company LOL Holdings II Inc. Land O’Lakes, a Minnesota cooperative corporation, and LOL Holdings II Inc. lists its principal places of business as Arden Hills.
“Because the members of its sole member are citizens of the states of Minnesota and Delaware,” said the document, “Nutra-Blend is also a citizen of the state of Minnesota and Delaware.”
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri case number 4:18-cv-01623