Otis Elevator Company v. George Washington Hotel Corporation, Stanley S. Bazant, Stanley S. Bazant

OPINION OF THE COURT

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

This diversity case arises out of a contractual dispute between Stanley Bazant, a hotel owner, and Otis Elevator Company. Intertwined "with certain procedural questions is one substantive question of Pennsylvania law. That question concerns the construction of a so-called “automatic renewal provision” — that is, a contractual provision pursuant to which a contract for a term is renewed automatically for a further term unless, before a specified date, one party gives notice of an intent to terminate. The district court held that Bazant’s late…