Marguerite Hoffman v. David Martinez

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises out of the sale and public re-sale by auction of a well-known Mark Rothko painting. The painting’s original owner, Marguerite Hoffman, argues that she was fraudulently induced into selling the painting with assurances of secrecy and that the eventual public re-sale of the painting constituted a breach of a confidentiality provision in her agreement with the original buyer. For the reasons described below, we AFFIRM the district court’s grant of summary judgment for defendant L & M Arts on Hoffman’s fraudulent inducement claim,' AFFIRM…