Gries Sports Enterprises, Inc. v. Modell

Gries argue that Ohio law should apply since the 1965 agreement and 1971 amendment were negotiated in Ohio, executed in Ohio, between Ohio parties, to be performed in Ohio, and an Ohio court is being requested to enforce the agreement. Gries maintain that the general rule is that the law of the place of performance controls the agreement and that Ohio, not Delaware, bears the most significant relationship to this agreement.

Modell argues that Delaware law applies. Were Delaware law to apply the agreement between Gries and Modell would have terminated, at the latest, in 1981 (ten years from the…