Barry Wright Corporation v. Itt Grinnell Corporation

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• observing that potential foreclosure effect of volume discount requirements contract between manufacturer, who had 83% to 94% market share, and purchaser of mechanical snubbers was 50% where purchaser‟s snubber purchases represented 50% of snubber market
• observing that potential foreclosure effect of volume discount requirements contract between manufacturer, who had 83% to 94% market share, and purchaser of mechanical snubbers was 50% where purchaser's snubber purchases represented 50% of snubber market
• holding Sherman Act does not prohibit prices that exceed both incremental and average costs
• asking whether the defendant’s conduct was “reasonable in light of its business needs” or whether it “unreasonably restrict[ed] competition”
• applying the price-cost test to uphold discounts linked to a requirements contract
• arguing against too rigid an adherence to economic principles in antitrust analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).