Atkinson v. Rosenthal

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• limiting Anthony’s Pier Four v. HBC Associates, 411 Mass. 451, 583 N.E.2d 806 (1991), 219 to breach of contract eases with this extortionate quality
• even an intentional default by commercial tenant is not enough to constitute a c.93A violation without proof of an “extortionate quality” to the conduct
• notice to tenant that landlord would seek to relet the premises, “in effect for the tenant’s account[, did not support] an inference of acceptance of surrender”
• “[Fjailure to perform obligations under a written lease, even [if] deliberate and for reasons of self-interest, does not present an occasion for invocation of c. 93A remedies”
• no c. 93A violation where tenant deliberately abandoned and thereby breached commercial lease

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).