Caribe Industrial Systems, Inc. v. National Starch and Chemical Company

CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Caribe Industrial Systems Inc. (“Caribe”) sued its principal, defendant-appellee National Starch and Chemical Company (“National”), under the Puerto Rico Dealer’s Act. The district court dismissed Caribe’s complaint for failure to state a claim, holding that National did not violate the Dealer’s Act by selling goods directly to Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (“Checkpoint”), a company with which Caribe had been dealing. We affirm the decision below, although on different grounds than those stated by the district court.

I. BACKGROUND

In its complaint,…