Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Razumic

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• holding that franchisors have a duty to act in good faith and with commercial reasonableness when terminating franchise agreements
• concluding that “dealer lease” for gas station and course of conduct constituted franchise arrangement
• referring to § 231 of Restatement (Second) of Contracts Tent. Draft No. 5 1970 now § 205
• basing decision that franchisor cannot arbitrarily terminate relationship on franchisor’s “obligation to deal with its franchisees in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner”
• finding implicit in a franchise contract for a term of years the “reasonable expectation,” under “principles of good faith and commercial reasonableness,” that the supplier will not arbitrarily or summarily terminate the franchise agreement
• endorsing a draft comment from the Restatement (Second) of Contracts providing that “[t]he parties to an agreement know best what they meant, and their action under it is often the strongest evidence of their meaning”

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Other cases named Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Razumic

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• Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Razumic
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-06-10
• Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Razumic
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-06-10