General Tool Industries, Inc. v. Premier Machinery, Inc.

The plaintiff below, General Tool Industries, Inc. [General Tool], appeals from an adverse final summary judgment entered in favor of the defendants, Premier Machinery, Inc. [Premier] and Mazak Corporation [Mazak]. We affirm.

Mazak manufactures certain types of equipment and machinery; Premier is Ma-zak’s distributor, agent and representative; and General Tool is a machine shop. One of General Tool’s customers asked General Tool to manufacture six different types of rocker arms. General Tool did not have the necessary computerized machining center to produce the rocker arms, and therefore,…