Ervin Equipment Inc. v. Wabash National Corp.

OPINION AND ORDER

PHILIP P. SIMON, CHIEF JUDGE

This case is about the attempted termination of a dealership agreement between a manufacturer of semitrailers, Wabash National Corporation, and Ervin Equipment, Inc., one of Wabash’s dealers. The parties entered into a Dealership Agreement in June 2011 giving Ervin the right to buy for resale a specific type of Wabash semitrailers and prohibiting Ervin from selling any competing products without the written consent of Wabash. Ervin’s territory—their “Area of Responsibility” in the parlance of the Dealership Agreement— included a number of counties…