Wiseco, Inc. v. Johnson Controls, Inc.

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Wiseco, Inc., a Kentucky-based tool-and-die company, seeks review of a ruling summarily rejecting its claim that Johnson Controls, Inc.(JCI) breached a requirements contract between the two companies. Because Wiseco has failed to establish a material fact dispute that JCI acted in bad faith in reducing its requirements under the contract, we affirm.

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In 1998, JCI produced metal headrest stays for several DaimlerChrysler vehicles. In December of that year, an employee at JCI’s Foamech plant in Georgetown, Kentucky sought to out-source two aspects of the stay-manufacturing…