Ex Parte Cintas Corporation

On Application for Rehearing

The opinion issued on August 25, 2006, is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted therefor.

Certain defendants in an action pending in the Randolph Circuit Court petition this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the circuit court to enforce a forum-selection clause and grant their motion to dismiss. We deny the petition.

Cintas Corporation No. 2 ("Cintas") rents and sells uniforms throughout the United States. Terry Manufacturing Company, Inc. ("Terry Mfg."), was a minority-owned business in Randolph County that manufactured uniforms. In 2000, Cintas…