Salazar v. Coastal Corp.

OPINION

AMIDEI, Justice.

This appeal from a summary judgment in a suit arising from the termination of an agency relationship presents the questions of whether Texas law should be applied to govern the parties’ agreement, whether material fact questions exist, and whether discovery was properly denied. Appellant, Carlos Salazar (“Salazar”), sued appellees, the Coastal Corporation (“TCC”), and its subsidiaries, Coastal States Trading, Inc. (“CSTI”), and Coastal Petroleum Marketing N.V. n/k/a Coastal Petroleum N.Y. (“CPNV”), after CSTI terminated Salazar’s agency relationship with it in Ecuador.…