Greater Lowell Auto Mall, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Distributors, Inc.

Stripped of considerable chaff in the appeal, this case reduces to a single decisive question. Did Toyota Motor Distributors, Inc. (Toyota), act in a commercially reasonable fashion, as it was required to do by G. L. c. 93B, § 4(3)(0, 2 when it refused consent to the assignment of an automobile dealership by Hallissy Auto Mall, Inc., to Greater Lowell Auto Mall, Inc. (GLAM)? A judge of the Superior Court, who took the case on the defendant Toyota’s motion for summary judgment, decided that consent to an assignment of the franchise had been withheld reasonably, and a judgment, from which GLAM…