VK Investments suit against Repairify officials dismissed
A lawsuit filed by VK Investments that alleges Repairify officials breached their fiduciary duty has been dismissed with prejudice, according to a court document.
VK Investments is a minority member of Repairify Holdings, which is majority-owned and controlled by Kinderhook. The suit is filed derivatively on behalf of Repairify and also against Repairify, Kinderhook, Repairify Executive Chairman John Lindle, Kinderhook Managing Director Paul Cifelli, and Repairify Chief Financial Officer Brian Seldess.
The suit was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware in December 2024.
Maurice Tuff, the controller of VK Investments, created BlueDriver, which is a vehicle diagnostic repair tool that uses wireless communication between vehicles and iPhone and Android devices. The suit claims Repairify purchased BlueDriver in 2021.
Kinderhook and Cifelli filed a motion to dismiss the complaint in February 2025 stating that a derivative claim is a company asset and whether and how to pursue it is a decision to be made by the directors of a corporation or the managers of an LLC. It states a plaintiff must plead with particularity that making a demand to bring the litigation would be futile, such that demand is excused.
The motion to dismiss claims VK Investments failed to make a demand and thus faces the heavy burden of pleading with specificity that Repairify is incapable of protecting itself.
“Rather than alleging with specificity that demand would be futile, the complaint recites a series of irrelevant personal grievances and a desire to liquidate a position in a company that plaintiff does not control,” the motion states.
Repairify Holdings and Repairify also filed a motion to join Kinderhook and Cifelli’s motion to dismiss.
Lindle filed his own motion to dismiss in May.
He claimed Tuff became disgruntled when an expected sale of Repairify failed to materialize.
The motion also says VK’s breach of fiduciary duty claim fails to state a claim needed under the Court of Chancery.
“Plaintiff’s scattershot allegations, based chiefly on Tuff’s disagreement with the strategic decisions at Repairify, do not support a claim that Lindle breached his fiduciary duties,” the motion says. “Plaintiff offers only supposition and conclusory allegations about Lindle’s conduct that do not come close to pleading the gross negligence and recklessness this court requires to state a claim for a breach of the duty of care.”
A document recently provided to Repairer Driven News shows that a judge granted the dismissal of the case in December 2025. The order granted motion for dismissal of all defendants in the case including Kinderhook, Repairify, Lindle, Cifelli, and Seldess.
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