Jpm, Inc., John P. Mettler, and Margo Mettler v. John Deere Industrial Equipment Company and Deere & Company

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

John Mettler and his wife Margo are the sole shareholders of JPM, Inc. In 1990, JPM and the John Deere company entered into three separate agreements. The agreements, which created a dealership under the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law, made JPM a “dealer” and John Deere a “grantor,” as those terms are defined by the Wisconsin law. Wis.Stat. § 135.02(2) and (5). In the deal, JPM purchased the exclusive dealership rights to certain lines of John Deere equipment in a defined territory in northwest Wisconsin for $1 million. Four years later, JPM sold the dealership…