Woodland Harvesting, Inc. v. Georgia Pacific Corporation

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND STAYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

AVERN COHN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a contract and fraud case. Plaintiff Woodland Harvesting, Inc. (WHI) is a Michigan corporation that supplies wood products including wood chips. Defendant Georgia Pacific, Corp. (GP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc. and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. WHI and GP entered into a series of contracts under which WHI supplied wood chips to GP’s particle board plant in Gaylord, Michigan. In March 2006 GP closed its particle board plant…