Legal Opinion
Skanchy v. Calcados Ortope SA
Utah Supreme Court
Decided February 6, 1998No. 960190PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Justice:
This appeal is from a default judgment awarding plaintiffs A. Lewis Skanehy and Fabio T. Sagebin damages on a promissory estoppel claim. Skanehy and Sagebin entered into a contract with defendant Calca-dos Órtope, a Brazilian corporation, for Skanehy and Sagebin to sell Calcados’ children’s shoes as Calcados’ sole distributor in the United States and Canada. 1 The complaint alleged that Calcados sold directly to a corporation in Florida and thereby violated plaintiffs’ exclusive territorial rights under their distributorship contract. Skanehy and Sagebin alleged claims for…
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