Ppm Chemical Corp. Of P.R. v. Saskatoon Chemical Ltd.

BREYER, Chief Judge.

In 1985, Saskatoon Chemicals Ltd., a Canadian firm, entered into a contract with PPM Chemical Corporation of Puerto Rico, under which PPM became Saskatoon’s exclusive Caribbean distributor of calcium hy-pochlorite. In mid-1987, Saskatoon, dissatisfied with PPM’s performance, told PPM it would no longer sell exclusively to PPM (though it would still sell to PPM on a non exclusive basis). PPM then claimed that Saskatoon violated Puerto Rico’s Dealers’ Contracts Act, which says that:

no principal or grantor may directly or indirectly perform any act detrimental to the…