Berg Chilling Systems, Inc. v. Hull Corporation Sp Industries, Inc

ALITO, Circuit Judge.

Berg Chilling Systems (“Berg”) appeals a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In the earlier proceedings, Berg sought a judgment rendering SP Industries (“SPI”) liable for breach of contract, most recently based on the theory that SPI assumed liability when it purchased the assets of an entire division of the Hull Corporation (“Hull”), the original party to the contract. Because we find that SPI did not assume Hull’s contractual liability to Berg under any of the exceptions to the traditional corporate rule of…