House of Flavors, Inc. v. TFG-Michigan, L.P.

DECISION AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

D. BROCK HORNBY, District Judge.

This is a dispute over whether a Utah company breached an agreement to sell ice cream machinery to a Maine company at a set purchase price at the end of an equipment lease. The lease does not contain a purchase price. Before signing the lease, the Utah company, TFG-Michigan (“Tetra”), sent the Maine company, House of Flavors, Inc. (“House of Flavors”), a letter estimating the end-of-term purchase price for the machinery. In due course, House of Flavors tried to buy the equipment at the estimated…