Alpha Distributing Co. of California, Inc. v. Jack Daniel's Distillery, Lem Motlow Prop., Inc.

SWEIGERT, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court upon application of plaintiff, Alpha Dis tributing Company, a wholesale liquor distributor which has had an exclusive dealership arrangement with defendant, Jack Daniel’s Distillery, for a preliminary injunction prohibiting Daniel’s and defendant Brown Forman Distillers Corporation, a corporate affiliate of Daniel’s, from marketing Jack Daniel’s whisky in a large northern California area except through plaintiff.

The record consists of the complaint and affidavits filed by the parties.

The complaint’s first cause of action alleges…