Thе Plaintiff, research systems corporation (“RSC”), sued IPSOS S.A. and several *918 of its subsidiaries (collectively “IPSOS”) for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets (under Indiana and federal law), constructive fraud and false advertising. The district court entered summary judgment for IPSOS on RSC’s state law misappropriation claim, and a jury found for IPSOS on the rest of the claims. RSC appeals the grant of summary judgment, the entry of judgment against it following the jury verdict, the denial of its motion for a new trial, the denial of a post-trial motion for sanctions against IPSOS, and the granting of a post-trial mоtion IPSOS made to recover some of its expert witness fees from RSC. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the district court in all respects.
I
BACKGROUND
A. Facts
RSC is an advertising research company. It sells a product called “ARS Persuasion,” which is a system for testing the effectiveness of television commercials. In 1989, the French advertising research company IPSOS Publicit, a subsidiary of IPSOS S.A., approached RSC regarding a possible joint venture between IPSOS and RSC to market a testing system in France. IPSOS sold a testing system called Pre*Vision in France, but wanted to develop a new system to attract the business of Proctor & Gamble (“P & G”).
Representatives of IPSOS and RSC began to negotiate seriously in September 1990. The presidents of IPSOS Publicité and IPSOS S.A. each signed a confidentiality agreement with RSC covering information that the companies would share. In December 1990, representatives of IPSOS visited RSC headquarters in Evansville, Indiana, and received a guided tour of the facility. During the visit, RSC furnished the IPSOS representatives with proposed joint venture and license agreements. The terms of the agreements were not acceptable to IPSOS, however, and the two companies were unable tо reach any further agreement. RSC had been pursuing similar arrangements with other European advertising research companies as well, but there, too, could reach no final agreements. In early 1991, IPSOS and the two other European companies with which RSC had negotiated, Research Services Limited (“RSL”) of the United Kingdom and the Sample Institute (Sample) of Germany, put together a joint proposal to RSC for the licensing of ARS Persuasion in Europe. RSC rejected the offer, and negotiations between RSC and the European companies ended in August 1991.
By September 1991, IPSOS in collaboration with Sample had revised its Precision product to make it compatible with the RSL and Sample products used by P & G in the UK and Germany. RSC learned of the revised Precision in September 1991.
B. District Court Proceedings
RSC filed suit in December 1996 in an Indiana state court for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract. IP-SOS removed the case to federal court in January 1997 and filed for partial summary judgment in March 1998 on the ground that the state law misappropriation claims were time-barred. The court granted RSC’s motion to delay its response until thirty days after discovery. In February 1999, the court permitted RSC to amend its complaint to add two new parties and claims of constructive fraud and false advertising and misappropriation under the Lanham Act. RSC sought permission to amend its complaint again in November 1999 to add more new parties and new claims, but the court denied the motion, explaining that more delay was not *919 in the interest of justice. Over the course of discovery, each party filed numerous motions to compel. In June 1999, the court scheduled a trial date for April 3, 2000. In December 1999, the court ordered the parties to work out a discovery schedule that would lead up to the April 2000 trial. According to the schedule, on which the parties agreed, each party’s witness lists and exhibits were to be disclosed by March 3, 2000, and IPSOS was to disclose its potential expert witnesses by March 17, 2000. Each party’s disclosures were timely.
On March 17, 2000, RSC moved for a continuance, but the court denied the motion. It also moved the trial to April 4, reserving April 3 as a day to resolve any pending motions. On March 23 and 24, 2000, both parties made several motions in limine, including motions for sanctions, which the court rejected. On March 31, the court granted IPSOS’ motion for partial summary judgment on the state law misappropriation claims, holding that the claims were time barred. RSC moved for a continuance of the trial on April 3. The court granted the motion, and moved the trial date to April 6. The jury returned a verdict for IPSOS on all claims, and the court entered judgment on the jury verdict for IPSOS. It denied RSC’s motion for a new trial on September 15. RSC then filed another motion for sanctions, which the court denied. Finally, on October 24, 2000, the court granted IPSOS’ motion to recover expert witness fees from RSC. RSC had deposed the proffered witnesses, but had refusеd to pay the witnesses’ fees after IPSOS decided not to call them at trial.
II
DISCUSSION
A.
RSC claims that IPSOS’ pretrial conduct and the district court’s denial of RSC’s motions for continuances violated RSC’s due process right to a full and fair trial. The crux of RSC’s argument is that IP-SOS purposefully delayed its delivery of discovery materials until the month before trial and that the delay interfered with RSC’s ability to prepare for trial. RSC made two motions for continuances: the first on March 17, 2000, and the second on March 28, 2000. The district court summarily denied the first and reserved decision on the second until it could hear oral argument on the motion. The court granted a continuance, moving the trial date from April 4 to April 6, 2000, but RSC maintains that the two-day extension was inadequate.
“We review the trial court’s denial of a continuance for abuse of discretion.”
United States v. $94,000.00 in United States Currency,
The plaintiffs original complaint was filed on December 16, 1996.... A trial date is set for April 3, 2000. Discovery has been extensive and extremely expensive. The parties have each exchanged 33,000 to 40,000 pages of materials and have filed numerous motions to compel. Depositions have required at least two and possibly three trips to Europe. There are contemplated depositions in South America. The plaintiff was previously granted leave to file a first amended complaint in July 1999.
R.322 at 2. Given that “district judges must be allowed considerable leeway in scheduling civil cases, and therefore in denying continuances that would disrupt their schedules,”
N. Ind. Pub. Serv. Co.,
B.
RSC contends that the district court abused its discretion by denying its motion for sanctions for the “obstructive tactics” of defense counsel. The tactics, RSC claims, thwarted RSC’s efforts to bring the case to trial and increased its cost of doing so. The district court did not abuse its discretion. “District courts possess wide latitude in fashioning appropriate sanctions,” and this court will not disturb the decisions unless they are unreasonable.
Johnson v. Kakvand,
C.
RSC contends that the district court erred in granting IPSOS recovery of the expert witness fees. First, as the district court noted in its order, Fеderal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(4)(A) permits a party to depose an expert whose opinion may be presented at trial. See Fed. R.CÍV.P. 26(b)(4)(A). Rule 26(b)(4)(C) provides: “Unless manifest injustice would result, (i) the court shall require that the party seeking discovery pay the expert a reasonable fee for time spent in responding to discovery under this subdivision....” Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(b)(4)(C). RSC deposed IPSOS’ expert witnesses, and the court properly required RSC to pay for the costs of those depositions.
RSC alleges, however, that IPSOS never intended to call the experts at trial, and disclosed them just to distract RSC from its trial preparations and to burden RSC with the added expense of deposing the witnesses. RSC offers no specific evidence to support its allegations. Here, we would expect the trial judge — who is closer to, and more familiar with, the pre-trial actions of the parties — to have discovered any abuse that might not be apparent to us on the face of the record. Absent any *921 indication of the scheme RSC attributes to IPSOS, the district court did not abuse its discretion in granting IPSOS’ motion to recover the fees it incurred in making the experts available for RSC to depose.
D.
RSC next аsks this court to reverse the district court’s denial of RSC’s motion for a new trial. A party seeking to reverse a district court’s denial of a motion for a new trial “bears a particularly heavy burden.”
Lowe v. Consol. Freightways of Del., Inc.,
RSC ignores this standard of review. It does no more than point to some evidence and some inferences from the evidence that weigh in its favor. It makes no mention of the evidence supporting the jury’s verdict. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to IPSOS, as we must, it is apparent that the jury’s verdict is not against the weight of the evidence.
The jury made several specific findings that RSC now challenges. With respect to RSC’s misappropriation claim, the jury determined that RSC had not disclosed any information regarding its product, ARS Persuasion, to IPSOS that was not generally known or readily ascertainable by proper means. The jury also found that IPSOS did not have access to any confidential or proprietary information of RSC. RSC contends that the evidence demonstrates otherwise. RSC submits that its employee, Jan Awad, provided IP-SOS with RSC’s “standard error formula” as a correction to IPSOS’ formula. Even if the formula was given, however, RSC hаs not pointed to any evidence to show that the standard error formula was not readily ascertainable by proper means. Moreover, Awad was the only witness to testify about the formula and her testimony was vague and the jury was justified in not accepting it as sufficient to prove RSC’s case. RSC also claims that IPSOS received secret information during the Operations Overview Tour that RSC provided of its facility. However, RSC has not invited our attention to any evidence in the record to show that the information provided on the tour consisted of trade secrets. The jury was entitled to believe IPSOS S.A. president, Didier Truchot, who testified that IPSOS representatives saw little more than the sight of people working in their offices. RSC simply did not prove this element of the claim.
The jury also found that IPSOS had independently developed Pre*Vision. RSC claims that this finding is inconsistent with the evidence that IPSOS developed Pre*Vision from methodologies developed by other European marketing firms. Whether IPSOS borrowed from other European companies is irrelevant to the question of whether IPSOS misappropriated RSC’s trade secrets. The issue was whether IPSOS had developed Prе*Vision independently of RSC’s information. Car *922 los Harding, the IPSOS executive responsible for revising Precision, testified that IPSOS developed Pre*Vision from information derived from IPSOS’ interactions with other European companies and with its clients. The jury was entitled to believe him.
With respect to RSC’s constructive fraud claim, the jury found that RSC was not in a weaker negotiating position than IPSOS and that RSC did not rely on any misrepresentations by IPSOS. RSC claims that the evidence does not support the jury’s determination. “Constructive fraud may be found where one party takes unconscionable advantage of his dоminant position in a confidential or fiduciary relationship.”
Estates of Kalwitz v. Kalwitz,
Turning to its false advertising claim, RSC challenges the jury’s findings that IPSOS never had offered Precision for sale in the United States and that IPSOS had not misrepresented the nature, characteristics, qualities or origin of Pre*Vision. Under the Lanham Act, which generally proscribes the false description of goods and their origins, the plaintiff must show, among other things, that the defendant made false or misleading statements concerning goods entering interstate commerce.
See B. Sanfield, Inc. v. Finlay Fine Jewelry Corp.,
Finally, RSC urges that the evidence does not support the jury’s verdict for IPSOS on RSC’s breach of contract claim. IPSOS and RSC signed a confidentiality agreement whereby each party promised not to disclose the information shared with the other. The agreement explicitly excepted information that “(i) was earlier known to the receiving party; (ii) is or becomes known to the public other than through disclosure by the receiving party; or (iii) is disclosed to the receiving party by a third party having a right to disclose such information.” Plaintiffs Trial Exs. VoLVII at 1013. The jury *923 found that RSC had not disclosed any information regarding its product to IP-SOS that was not generally known or readily ascertainable by proper means. That finding, as discussed above, was not against the weight of the evidenсe. Thus, the jury found that whatever information IPSOS had received from RSC was within the exception to the confidentiality agreement. Therefore, the verdict in favor of IPSOS on RSC’s breach of contract claim was not against the weight of the evidence, and the district court did not err in denying RSC’s motion for a new trial.
E.
RSC takes issue with five separate rulings by the district court on the admissibility of certain evidence. This court reviews a district court’s evidentiary rulings for an abuse of discretion.
See United States v. Smith,
First, RSC challenges the district court’s exclusion of two memoranda written by Jan Awad describing meetings with IPSOS. RSC sought to have the documents admitted into evidence, but the district court excluded them as hearsay because' they were offered for the truth of the matter asserted in the memos. RSC contends that the memos should have been admitted as past recollections recorded. Federal Rule of Evidence 803(5) permits recorded past recollections to be read into evidence, but not to be received into evidence as exhibits unless offered by an adverse party. See Fed.R.Evid. 803(5). RSC sought to introduсe the memoranda as substantive exhibits, something the rule explicitly prohibits. The district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding the memoranda.
RSC next challenges the admission of an IPSOS document, which purported to be a P & G document describing market tests being done in Germany. IP-SOS sought to admit the document as evidence of information in the possession of IPSOS’ Mr. Harding, the executive responsible for revising Pre*Vision, and upon which he relied in developing the revised Pre*Vision. The court admitted the document for the limited purpose of showing “that Mr. Harding had it — this document in his file.” Tr.V at 1027. RSC claims that the court еrred by not requiring IPSOS to establish that the document was authored by P & G. A document is authenticated if the evidence is “sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.” Fed.R.Evid. 901(a). IPSOS only claimed that it “was a document that was in [Mr. Harding’s] file and that he had it available to him when the changes [to Pre*Vision] were made.” Tr.V at 1025. Whether the document was actually from P & G was irrelevant, so long as the document was not from RSC, and RSC never claimed that it was. Thus, the district court did not err in admitting the document.
Next, RSC challenges the sufficiency of certain limiting instructions pertaining to the admission of еxhibits concerning other market testing systems. IPSOS sought to introduce the exhibits as evidence that IPSOS had substantial non-RSC information on which to rely in developing its revised Pre*Vision. At sidebar, the court agreed to instruct the jury that the exhibits would not be admitted for the truth of the matter asserted in them, but just as evidence of other information on which IPSOS could have relied. The court may have instructed the jury improperly, because the transcript reads that “it’s be *924 ing offered for the truth.” Tr.V at 1014. But any error was harmless because the nature of the testing systems described in the exhibits was irrelevant. What mattered was that IPSOS had still other sources of information on which to rely in developing its own system.
RSC argues that the district court erred in allowing Roger Flechsig, an executive of an IPSOS subsidiary corporation, to testify even though he had not been disclosed as a potential expert witness. IPSOS properly had disclosed Flechsig as a lay witness it would call at trial. RSC objected to Flechsig’s testimony that RSC’s product, ARS Persuasion, was not unique in the industry. A non-expert witness may give his opinion if it is “(a) rationally based on the perception of the witness, (b) helpful to a clear understanding of the witness’ testimony or the determination of a fact in issue, and (c) not based on scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge....” Fed.R.Evid. 701. Here, Flechsig’s opinion was rationally based on his twenty years of experience as a competitor of RSC. In any event, even if his opinion was based on the specialized knowledge of an expert, the single comment that ARS Persuasion was not unique could not have affected the outcome of the trial.
Finally, RSC claims that the district court erred by admitting Exhibits 41 and 83. Exhibit 41 was a portion of a report on the results of an advertising test performed by Burke Marketing, a competitor of RSC, using Burke’s Selector product. Exhibit 83 consisted of some materials that would have been included in the test that is mentioned in the Exhibit 41 report. IPSOS offered the exhibits to show that ARS Persuasion was not unique. RSC objected to the admission of the exhibits on the ground that IPSOS had not laid a proper foundation. Federal Rule of Evidence 901(b)(1) provides that an exhibit may be authenticated by testimony of a witness with knowledge that “a matter is what it is claimed to be.” Fed.R.Evid. 901(b)(1). Flechsig testified that he had been responsible for the marketing and sale of the Burke Selector product. Therefоre, the district court was not unreasonable in concluding that Flechsig was qualified to testify, as he did, that Exhibit 41 was “a true and accurate copy of an excerpt from a Burke Selector report,” Tr. XIII at 2434, and that Exhibit 83 consisted of materials that would have been included in a Selector test. The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting Exhibits 41 and 83.
F.
The district court granted summary judgment for IPSOS on RSC’s Indiana Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”) claim on the ground that the statute of limitations had run. RSC does not dispute that it learned of the purported misappropriation in October 1991 and filed its claim in 1996. The UTSA provides for a three-year limitations period on misappropriation claims. See Ind.Code § 24-2-3-7. Indiana tolls all of its limitations periods, however, for “[t]he time during which the defendant is a nonresident of the state [and does not] maintain in Indiana an agent for service of process or other person who, under the laws of Indiana, may be served with process as agent for the defendant.” Ind.Code § 34-11-4-1. IP-SOS never has been a resident of Indiana, nor maintained an agent or anyone else for service of process there. At first glance, it might appear that the limitations period for RSC’s сlaim against IPSOS is tolled. The Court of Appeals of Indiana has held, however, that the Indiana tolling provision does not apply “where the party claiming the benefit of the period of limitations was subject to the jurisdiction of a court in [the] state.” Haton v. Haton, 672 N.E.2d *925 962, 965 (Ind.Ct.App.1996). Based on Ha-ton, the district court held that RSC’s claim was time-barred because the UTSA limitations period was not tolled because RSC could have served IPSOS under Indiana’s long arm statute when it discovered the misappropriation. RSC urges this court to reject the holding of the Court of Appeals of Indiana in Haton, at least as it applies to defendants rеsiding in foreign countries, because of the added burden involved in serving parties abroad.
Because the district court was sitting in diversity, that court, and this court on review, must attempt to predict how the Supreme Court of Indiana would decide this issue.
See Lexington Ins. Co. v. Rugg & Knopp, Inc.,
Indiana’s tolling provision does not apply in cases against defendants who “maintain in Indiana an agent for service of process or other person who, under the laws of Indiana, may be served with process as agent for the defendant.” Ind. Code § 34-11-4-1. Indiana law used to permit service to be made upon the Secrеtary of State in actions against nonresident corporations.
See
Ind.Code § 23-3-3-1 (1982). In such cases, the tolling provision did not apply because the nonresident corporation was amenable to service of process via the Secretary of State.
See Tolen v. A.H. Robins Co., Inc.,
RSC distinguishes its case from
Haton
by noting that IPSOS was not just outside the state of Indiana, it was outside the United States. The rule in
Haton
should not apply here, RSC argues, because of the added burden involved in serving parties in foreign countries. But Indiana law makes no distinction between defendants based in the United States and those based in foreign countries. The manner of service is the same: by simple certified mail,
see
Ind.Code § 23-1-49-10; Ind. R. Trial P. 4.1(A)(1), 4.4(B)(1), 4.6(B), a method permitted by Article 10(a) of the Hague Convention, so long as the foreign country does not object.
See
Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters, Feb. 10, 1969, 20 U.S.T. 361, 658 U.N.T.S. 163. France has not objected.
See id.,
Article 21 & n. 7.
3
That IP-SOS could be served only in France does not render it unamenable to service, and the tolling statute should not apply.
See Alday,
Conclusion
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
Affirmed
Notes
. The district court's ruling denying leave to file a second amended complaint is not contested on appeal.
. RSC submits that the timing of IPSOS' disclosures prevented it from adding another party, RSL, to the action. However, as the district court noted in denying RSC's motion to file a second amended complaint that would have added RSL to the suit, RSC had notice that RSL might be using its purported trade secrets as early as June 14, 1996.
. The Hague Convention is appended to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4. See Fed. R.Civ.P. 4, conventions.