Viking Broadcasting Corp. v. Snell Publishing Co.

The plaintiff-appellant, Viking Broadcasting Corporation, a Utah corporation, seeks to force the defendant-appellee, Snell Publishing Co., Inc., a Nebraska corporation, to merge itself into Viking. The district court sustained Snell’s motion for summary judgment, and Viking here asserts that the court erred in so doing. We affirm.

Viking’s suit rests on a typed l3A-page “Letter of Intent” it prepared and the parties signed on or about April 27,1988. The document, on Viking letterhead and addressed to Snell, reads:

This letter, when executed by yourselves in the space provided below, will form…