State prisoner Anthony Tafoya appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his action and moves for in forma pauperis (“ifp ”) status on appeal. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm the dismissal and deny his motion for ifp status.
I. BACKGROUND
On July 2,, 2015, Mr. Tafoya, acting pro se,1 filed an action in the District of Colorado, alleging Colorado Department of Corrections officials failed to apply good-time and earned-time credits toward his mandatory release date (“MRD”) and are holding him beyond that date, as properly calculated, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
On July 24, 2015, the district court ordered Mr. Tafoya to show cause why his action should not be dismissed under Ankeney v. Raemisch, 344 P.3d 847 (Colo. 2015) (en banc), which held that the good-time and earned-time credits at issue “do not constitute the service of an inmate’s sentence but rather have significance only for calculating his eligibility for release to parole.” 344 P.3d at 852. The show cause order stated the court would dismiss Mr. Tafoya’s action with prejudice if he did not respond within 30 days. Mr. Tafoya filed no response. On September 18, 2015, the court dismissed his action with prejudice.
II. DISCUSSION
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b), a district court may dismiss an action with prejudice if a plaintiff fails “to prosecute or to comply with [the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure] or a court order.”2 “We review dismissals under Rule 41(b) for abuse of discretion.” Nasious, 492 F.3d at 1161. “An abuse of discretion occurs when a district court makes a clear error of judgment or exceeds the bounds of permissible choice in the circumstances. This occurs when a district court relies upon an erroneous conclusion of law or upon clearly erroneous findings of fact.” Ecclesiastes 9:10-11-12, Inc. v. LMC Holding Co., 497 F.3d 1135, 1143 (10th Cir.2007) (quotations, citation, and brackets omitted).
Mr. Tafoya asserts only that he complied with the show cause order by filing a “response[] to defendants’ motion to dismiss,” which he attaches to his opening appeal brief. Aplt. Br. at 1. The attached response, however, was filed in a separate *619action before a different judge.3 The docket history of this case indicates Defendants filed no motion to dismiss, and Mr. Tafoya filed no response. It also shows Mr. Tafoya failed to respond to the court’s show cause order. The district court therefore correctly concluded Mr. Tafoya failed to comply with the show cause order. It was consequently within the district court’s discretion to dismiss Mr. Tafoya’s action under Rule 41(b).4
For these reasons, we affirm. We also deny Mr. Tafoya’s request to proceed ifp because he has failed to present a nonfriv-olous argument on appeal. See DeBarde-leben v. Quinlan, 937 F.2d 502, 505 (10th Cir.1991) (“In order to succeed on his motion, an appellant must show a financial inability to pay the required filing fees and the existence of a reasoned, nonfrivolous argument on the law and facts in support of the issues raised on appeal.”); accord Watkins v. Leyba, 543 F.3d 624, 627 (10th Cir.2008).