Speroni S.P.A. v. Perceptron, Inc.

NELSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, a European distributor of products manufactured in the United States by the defendant, claims in this litigation that the defendant tortiously bid on a contract to supply one of the plaintiffs customers. Concluding that there was no room for doubt that the bid in question had been submitted by a subsidiary of the defendant, and not by the defendant itself, the district court entered summary judgment in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff has appealed that judgment.

While the litigation was pending in the district court, the subsidiary initiated…