Genesis Bio-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Chiron Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FUENTES, Circuit Judge.

In this matter, plaintiff Genesis Bio-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Genesis”), a New Jersey-based distributor of pharmaceutical products alleges that defendants Chiron Corporation (“Chiron”), a California company and Chiron Behring, a German company, breached an oral agreement for the distribution of a rabies vaccine in the United States. Genesis claims that the oral agreement was made between itself and Hoechst A.G (“Hoechst”), at a meeting in Frankfurt, Germany and that, at the time the agreement was made, Chiron, a joint venturer with Chiron Behring, had…