Easton Business Opportunities, Inc. v. Town Executive Suites-Eastern Marketplace, LLC

OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, J.:

This dispute involves a commission claimed under an exclusive right-to-sell brokerage agreement for the sale of a business. After a bench trial, the district court ruled in favor of the seller and against the broker’s assignee. It found the assignment ineffective and the commission unrecoverable, based on the broker’s breach of an implied duty to have given the seller a list of the people to whom the broker had shown the business, to whom the seller could not sell during the extension period without incurring liability for a commission. The agreement, as…