Robinette Hardware Co. v. Square D Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff Robinette, a South Carolina corporation, purchased some seven thousand dollars worth of wiring devices from various distributors in South Carolina about ten years ago. The devices had been manufactured outside South Carolina by defendants, who they are incorporated and have their major place of business outside the state. Claiming that illegal price fixing by the manufacturers had taken place, plaintiff commenced suit in the state courts of South Carolina alleging a breach of that state’s antitrust laws.

Defendants removed to the federal…