Crown Imports, LLC v. Superior Court

Opinion

CROSKEY, J.

Crown Imports, LLC (Crown), is the national importer of Corona beer and other beer brands. Two of its local distributors are Haralambos Beverage Company (HBC) and Classic Distributing & Beverage Group, Inc. (Classic). Classic and HBC allegedly entered into an oral agreement for HBC to sell its Crown distributorship to Classic. Crown, which had the contractual right to do so, disapproved the sale to Classic. HBC ultimately sold the distributorship to another entity, and has no dispute with Crown. Classic, however, as the disappointed buyer of HBC’s Crown distributorship,…